Recently bought a turntable (ebay no 141521101827) spent considerable time setting it all up Ariston RD11s with SME3009/Ortofon M20E super MC cartridge.The preamp I was using is a Naim42.5 with MM phono boards it really didn't sound nice.
I then bought another preamp meridian 506 from (ebay £148) fortunetely it had the correct meridian 506 MC phono boards inside it.
It does sound better,but it still isn't good. If I could tweak my turntable to sound half as good as my CDs I would be delighted.

The best way I can describe the sound is its boomy/basy and sounds bad/distorted if I turn it up loud.
My power amps are meridian 205s speakers sonus fabor concertinos.
Any help much appreciated as if this is as good as vinyl gets It is going on ebay to the higest bidder.