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In Reply to: Help picking a tube preamp posted by ralpheburns on November 4, 2014 at 08:36:15:
Hello Fellow Inmates,
I really appreciate all the input, and reckon that we are all more lost without each other! There are some good suggestions to start; Cary SLP-05 gets frequently suggested, BAT and VTL. Curiously nobody mentioned Aesthetix. Another suggestion had me thinking in a tangent...
Since my sole source is digital, then how about leaving out the preamp in favor of a DAC with a proper analog volume control? I don't need source selection, and can still mess around with NOS tubes in my Quicksilver Silver power amps. My source is a PCM/DSD library from JRiver on a micro Zuma SoTM CAPs. Selling my current SS preamp and PCM DAC will net around $7500, funds that can be recycled into a PCM/DSD DAC with a proper volume control.
A potential candidate is the MSB Analog DAC, which does all this and potentially offers upgrade capacity. The volume control is 1db (78) stepped-attenuator. Thoughts? Suddenly in the wrong forum?
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Follow Ups
- RE: Help picking a tube preamp - ralpheburns 09:08:02 11/05/14 (1)
- I've heard a couple of DACs with volume out: - Prisoners 08:30:08 11/06/14 (0)