Pure tube phono preamp

Aural Thrills Audio ’The Beast’ has only tubes used and is similar in design to the TRL DUDE preamp in build--huge chassis, huge power supply, 9 tubes used vs. 5 in the DUDE. Will quietly do LOMC down to .4 mv. He built this unit using the best sounding parts after testing for many years. Like the DUDE, it is a big chassis.  $2500 new.

Bob

From a marketing standpoint, that Aural Thrills guy always reminds me of the My Pillow guy...just sayin'.

Full disclosure: I'm the importer of the NVO tubed phono stages.
For clarification:  

The NVO’s use solid state rectification.

The SPA II (22 tubes total) has two high voltage and four heater bridge rectifiers, the SPA-One (13 tubes total) has one high voltage and two heater bridge rectifiers.

There are more than 40 units in the States and they do come up on the used market from time to time, maybe once or twice a year. Current orders are taking several months to come in due to the pandemic.

A Happy & Healthy New Year to all and please be SAFE!.

Steve

SOS

OP,

Not to be against your original idea which I have no recommendation for, just to clarify:

You seem to be both tempted by and concerned about separate SUT. I was too. I avoided MC for many years, because of noise of early pre-pre transformers. That problem's gone.

SUT's have no power, they simply have internal transformers, some with optional resistances. Well built ones have no hum. I put mine next to this and that, just to see, I cannot get any hum out of it.

OP, that's not what you really want; what you want is a SUT feeding into a tube phono amp, that will give you the silence you want plus the musical tube amplification you desire.