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Best Tubed Preamp For A Warm, Rich Sound, Yet Still Detailed and Agile

As the title says, I am looking for an exceptional preamp (obviously tubed) with warmth and liquidity, some of that golden glow, in the midrange and highs. I do not want slowness, or lack of detail, however. My budget is up to $6,000.00, for a used model. 

Based on my research, many of those that might make the list are very rare to find, and other recommendations would be greatly appreciated. 


nightfall
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musicophile
58 posts
 
Manley 300B Neo-Classic!
fbpearce
57 posts
 
DeHavilland Ultraverve 
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daveyf
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 Tunes 409 said:After 45 years in the hobby, without a shadow of a doubt, The Convergent Audio Technology Sl1 series of preamps are the most musical accurate sonically correct products for an all-in-one (phono and linestage) money can buy!!!!
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metropical
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@audioman58.  did you mean?
https://simplepleasuretubeamps.wordpress.com/


dragon_vibe
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MP-1 Pre-Amp from AtmaSphere.

I have had the Aesthetix older Calypso pre-amp from 2006. Had a nice musical Tube Sound to it. Mind you their are a number of upgrade option for this pre-amp. As much as I loved it I never really missed this pre-amp.

The MP1 does not not really impart a sound of its own. The Dynamics is a lot more better then Aesthetix and the speed and clean delivery of the musical notes is something one has to hear to appreciate it. The transparency and musicality is a league above from all the pre-amps I have gone through.

I just sent my Pre-Amp back to Ralph and already I'm missing it. I also have the MP3 on a second setup.

The issue with this warmer sounding pre-amp is you lose some information and over time you start to crave for more details but balancing both Smooth delivery and transparency so far has been done with the MP-1 Pre-amp better than any other pre-amps I spent money on.

MP-1 to my opinion leaves the MP-3 well behind. the Diffrence is pretty large.
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