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Help selecting a new preamp

I want to replace my Outlaw Audio 976 preamp with a stereo only preamp, no tuner. Sources will be an OPPO 103, a Shiit D/A from my mac mini room server and a Teac 2300 r to r Power amp is a Carver Crimson 275... speakers are Goldenear Triton 2+......max 5k budget. Any help is greatly appreciated. Phono input OK but not a necessity...THANKS
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milpai
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I highly recommend the Backert Labs Rhumba 1.3. You might also want to check out the Extreme version of this tube preamp. This does not come with a phono input though.
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fastninja12 OP
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Thanks, reading about it now.!

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wturkey
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Is a used preamp an option?
soix
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What are you looking to improve upon over your current preamp, and what overall sound reproduction characteristics are most important to you?  Are you looking for tubes or solid state, or either?
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rayburn_b OP
  I want to replace my Outlaw Audio 976 preamp with a stereo only preamp

You can trial a Schiit Freya for a couple of weeks, they are so versatile, best mechanical volume control going around, let's you select between tube, solid state in active modes, and you can go strait passive with it as many have found and liked.
It's also got remote and xlr or rca inputs and outputs.

  https://www.schiit.com/products/freya-2
or to save $300 just the solid state and passive Freya
  https://www.schiit.com/products/freya-s

Cheers George
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