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Pre for the Manley Snapper

Everytime i visit a hifistore, and tell them about a pre for the Manly Snapper. They always tell med different preamps, and the shop that has the Manley snapper mono amps they tell me, that i cant use that or that. I have to but the pre they are selling. 
And of course i can buy the Manley Steelhead, and thats the end of it. It will fit like a glove. But i hope to find something cheaper than the Steelhead. Probably with a dac and streaming device. But i hope for a pre that dont have digital volume. Because with digital volume, i get the feeling when i play on low volume that there is something holding back the sound. It fells compressed in the sound, if you understand my thinking. 
So does anybody know of a good pre for the snapper that dont cost more than maybe 5.000€ perhaps.
So any suggestion you good folks out there in the sound jungle

Haakon 
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heidrun OP
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When i speak to a dealer of loudspeakers. They always want to sell what they have. And most of the dont have for example the Sonus Faber Olympica III loudspeakers, and i love the sound of the Olympica III, but it is also difficult to get to listen to the Snapper and  Olympica together. But when i tell them about the combo, they always tell me, that that aint a great combination, but that i instead should buy the loudspeakers they have in the store.
So i wonder. Have anybody listened to the Snapper and Sonus Faber together
pryso
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steve, not that this matters to the OP but the traditional definition of a preamplifier is a control unit which includes a phono stage.  Back in the 1980 with the emergence of CDs enough consumers abandoned LPs that the phono stage became redundant.  So manufacturers responded by producing control units without built-in phono preamplifiers, they became known as line stages.  Thus the Jumbo Shrimp is a line stage.

Of course all this led to much confusion over the years. ;^)
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heidrun OP
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Im thinking here. Because the lack og inputs on Manley preamps. Then i have looked at another pre, but one from McIntosh. The C-22. It got a lovely vintage look and it has some nice specs. But for someone that knows specs better than me, and may have heard the combination Mc and Manley. Will the C-22 be a good match for the Snappers
https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/preamplifiers/C22
pryso
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"lack of inputs"?  Five inputs on the Jumbo Shrimp is not enough?
wolf_garcia
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Get a Schiit Freya for 700 bucks and if it doesn't work send it back.
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