A friend of mine who is very well-versed in guitar amps/tubes is skeptical of the bellari:
"It's basically a tube mic pre repackaged .... this company makes 'tube' mic pres & they aren't good. It isn't a true tube design, they blend the noisy 'tube' signal with a cheap op amp signal. It's not a true clean tube amp signal. It's the wrong tube... too noisy.
Try to find another phono pre which uses 12ax7 tubes. I bet they don't use them."
"It's basically a tube mic pre repackaged .... this company makes 'tube' mic pres & they aren't good. It isn't a true tube design, they blend the noisy 'tube' signal with a cheap op amp signal. It's not a true clean tube amp signal. It's the wrong tube... too noisy.
Try to find another phono pre which uses 12ax7 tubes. I bet they don't use them."