Tubeyist sounding Pre-amp?

randy-11

Ok I am going to go out on a limb here. You Sunfire Cinema Grand sound like crap and you are trying to mediate that sound. May not be necessary. I have never sold/owned maggies but sure there are plenty of threads here on the best amps to drive them. maybe an integrated? 
Do you 5 channels? Does anyone need 5 channels? 

no, the Sunfire sounds very nice

I have 2 channels and bi-amp the Maggies

Have you considered the Sunfire tube pre ?Should have synergy with your amp . Had one for a minute and moved on for the fact it was tubey . Have come to the conclusion tubes just aren't my thing no matter how many times i read get a tube pre and solid state amp . 

If you want a tubey sounding preamp, you probably don't want an ARC preamp.  The 6H30 tube that they use is definitely not classic tube or warm or euphonic sounding.  I know that someone could build a preamp using it that is those things, but ARC isn't doing that.

Bigkidz...surprised you mentioned counterpoint. Have had a 3.1 for 25 years( !). Purchased expensive potential replacements 3 times, one of which is in storage bc I keep going back to the CP. Shame this company went away so long ago, they would have done some great things. Had a CJ amp long ago, should have kept that too!