Thanks for the info. I'll probably get these at some point. I've always loved sketches, I can still remember late nights in a cold house I had in Burton, Ohio, listening to Sketches on a big console stereo, it always had magic for me. I don't think I've ever heard it in mono.
I still have the GCPH, it's in my bedroom system now. I love that preamp, but. . . this Decware ZP3 is absolutely dead quiet, no noise at all, and so dynamic and full and three dimensional it's blowing my mind how good vinyl sounds. My digital rig costs about three times what my vinyl does, but sure doesn't sound three times better. I love both digital and vinyl, and realize how lucky I am to have the sound I have.