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Your tube preamp and ss amp thread

Last night I was listening to my tube preamp and my tube mono blocks, noticed an imbalance in the sound, and as usual I traced it to a tube problem in the mono blocks. Luckily, I also own a ss stereo amp as a 'backup'. IME, ss amps tend to be a lot more reliable than tube amps. Nonetheless, I would be interested in how many other folk run a tube preamp and ss amp combo, and if so, what are your choices.
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laaudionut
265 posts
 
Aric Audio Motherlode preamp
Coda Model 16 amp

Burned through a lot of money and hours to get here, but all is forgotten now...there is great symmetry between the two.

TAD CE1 Monitors and a pair of JL Audio F112V2's express this combination of tube and SS brilliantly! 


dustyb13
17 posts
 
Presence Audio and Parasound JC1s
winoguy17
1,127 posts
 
 Modwright LS 100 / Simaudio Moon W5.3 SE

vinylshadow
497 posts
 
I have been considering getting a tubed Rogue RP-7 to pair with my Jeff Rowland S.S. Model 12 monoblocks but I was not certain that the RP-7 would be $4500 better than my Classe SSP-800's analog pass through.
azthu
24 posts
 
Vincent SA-T1 pre with Parasound A-21 SS=plenty of power and all the extra influencing knobs!
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