PROBLEM SOLVED!!

Well my 50th birthday presents came a little early this year as that will be tomorrow.  Yesterday made a quick stop on lunch break to my local Sam Ash store and VIOLA!  not one but 2 demo pre-amps missing power cords that they sold me for $5 each--one I used last night shown in the picture, the Stanton M 203 that kicks ass with count 'em 6 adjustor controls for recording level and the other was a Numark offering that I will keep in reserve--both are new and should last me a long long time!  Check out the rips from today above and you will notice better sound but still that softness people like...it seems my software left-right recording level displays now show pure yellow instead of yellow for half and green for the other signal half from my worn out obsolete GEMINI PMX-100 pre-amp signal I used for over 5000 rips...this means the signal is much stronger from the STANTON pre-amp with no distortion!!! As the Gear Daddies would say....PROBLEM SOLVED!  Yay, the Universe accepts me!