High end stereo preamps? Worth it?

Benchmark LA4  Line stage device sounds interesting to simplify whatever a stereo preamp does.   For streaming only, seems ideal and wonder about amp matching issues.
Wish it came with a ht bypass.

Not going to dig out the references

Yes they have their following, but not among "vast majority of professional reviewers".

Cheers George

Ok

@sokogear-@itsjustme - no - I was talking about going straight from a phono stage to a power amp.

Not clear what you are saying "no" to.  Precisely what i was talking about.  RIAA --> Power amp is "no preamp".

No matter just a bit confused.

my current system consists of Musical Fidelity M6PRX amp and M6PRE. I am also using a Mytek Brooklyn Dac + and PS Audio phono stage. Both the Dac and Phono stage have preamps and the M6PRX amp has switchable inputs. I took the preamp out of the system and am running the Dac and phono straight to the amp. It sounds very good and I tried it for several weeks but I will be putting the Pre back in simply because with the pre it sounds "more musical" to me. Hard to describe, both are very good but with the Pre it just sounds right. This may be a dumb statement but doesn't every component deconstruct and reconstruct the signal ?