Setup upgrade day

[ashbrook.m]

Looking for advice on a pathway of additions to my setup. I have been using a heavily modified Crack with a Teac UD-301 DAC and HD 650 headphones for a number of years at my desk. I am looking to add phono and speaker capabilities.

Story is this. My grandmother used to work in a BIC factory and I have many of her turntables and enough cartridges/parts to last a lifetime or two. I have a pair of tower speakers laying around as well to get me started. My plan was to take advantage of the sale today and order a Kaiju and an Eros 2. Later, I would also build a pair of speakers (perhaps a subwoofer?) and a cabinet (also a woodworker) to compliment the setup using what I have for now.

Will this get me started? Do I need to put a BeePre 2 in the cart today as well? Thanks for your help.     

[Tom-s]

The Eros is a phono pre (recommended: i love mine); without a volume controle.
The Kaiju is a power amp; without a volume controle.
I'd recommend putting a preamp (a volume control) in between. It won't work very well without.
The BeePre2 would be the best match yes.

[ashbrook.m]

Perfect. Thanks for the help. I just assumed from my Crack experience that everything has volume control.

[Larpy]

Kaiju does have a volume control.  One for the left channel, and one for the right channel.

[Paul Joppa]

Technically, I'd call the Kaiju knobs sensitivity controls since they are linear pots, not logarithmic. They have a useful range of maybe 20dB, and are intended to deal with left-right gain balance and/or high-gain preamps.

[Doc B.]

Yes, those are level trims. This is something we decided to incorporate after years of working with mastering engineers who needed very precise control of levels as tubes age.