Man, you guys (poppa and peabody) are supportive! Thanks.

Okay. Guess what? Tube box came in the mail today. Was about to give up and return it until I figured out I had the jumper switches wrong. Had them at 100ohms instead of 100Pf on each channel. Sounded like someone was smothering my speakers at 100 ohms.

Switched to the correct settings and have been blown away! Many things I noticed right off the bat:

1) I used to turn my volume to 30 for good listening volume, never higher than 40. With this unit plugged into my tape/aux, the volume is set at 10 for good listening. Strange. I wasnt expecting the step up in volume. Perhaps the gain settings of the box. Anyway, not a problem at all.

2) Clear and revealing is correct! Where my mids and highs were somehwhat recessed before, they are spot on now. The Sansui has a high-pass filter that I could never use because if I did use it, I would have to turn my treble all the way up and still not get the treble correct. With this unit I run the high pass and have my treble at +2 and its perfect.

I use an older (not fashionable) Technics SLD3. For home use, not DJ. But it has great tone arm and I love the queing (sp?) mechanism. Paired with an ortofon 2m bronze.

3) Have played two album thus far, Julian Lennon, Vallotte and Police, Regatta de Blanc. I like what I hear. Everythings seems to be in its place.

As I get further into the vinyl and break this puppy in, there will be more to follow