My last pre with digital volume was a McCormack , and while it was good I missed the traditional rotary volume knob. I like tactile switches , buttons, knobs. My preamp has way more functionality than it's looks suggest . It has conventional controls, remote vol, mute, and Mono, it can drive 2 stereo amps via RCA and 2 via XLR , HT passthrough, plenty of inputs. Unreal sound quality ..... that was a good buy
Many higher end preamps are dated and ugly, why is this?
Conrad Johnson, BAT, VTL are all very good preamplifiers, they are dated and just ugly. Audio research is a prettier amplifier but it's not very well regarded due to it sounding more like a solid state, ie. Not really a tube preamp despite all those internal lightbulbs.
Cheaper preamps can be more pretty. Schitt makes a pretty preamp for about $1000. People like pretty.
D'Agostino by many is viewed as very attractive but kind of weird.
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