Tube preamp with remote for 1K used

I second the Rogue - mine does a very nice job (no remote, has the phone section). You could possibly get a used one for around $700 and then talk to Rogue about the $250 Magnum upgrade - will put you right on budget...

I agree the Melos SHA series is a nice pre.I believe they only have 2 tubes so if you dont want to have to spend alot for a tube roll this may be a factor.Please correct me John and Dug if Im wrong about the # of tubes(as if you wouldnt):) Also,the Rogue is avaliable with a remote just to clear up any confusion from RGD's post.Last I knew Rogue was going to start offering the 66 with a remote and phono together.

my music-director is a true fully-balanced design, so it has 4 6922/7308 tubes. but, the single-ended wersions & the sha-golds (single-ended inputs w/balanced & single-ended outputs) i do believe use only two 6922/7308 toobs.

doug s.

David - tx for clarifying my post(brain to typing fingers translation lost something) - what I meant to say was that Rogue offers the 66 in either the phono or remote version and mine was the phono version. Possibly now there is a unit with both those functions combined...Mark O'Brien at Rogue is a great guy to deal with and will answer all of your questions.

You might also want to consider BAT VK3i (might be a touch more with the remote). Balanced and single-ended, optional phono, 4 6922 and 2 6v6s, so there would be more $ in tubes, for sure (although these units are suppossedly much easier on tubes than AI 3 .