The convenience of the full set of controls is nice although 95% of the time I only use the "pure direct" and the volume setting

Then I went to 'Pure Direct"

"A/B"ing between Pure Direct and normal, resetting the controls to compensate for room acoustics/speaker reproduction (tonal imbalances heard while on PD) until the imbalances were gone and the program material even sounding

Love the pure direct for phono.

The pure- direct & the loudness features were useless for me

Pure direct is slightly better, but there is still little warmth and too much high end

Also I burned my tunes at the higher but rat e (320).Would highly recommend.