What's a little warm up time out of your day and you can definitely improve your musical sound stage with a tube pre amp.You will also have the added bonus of fleshing out the sound of your Bryston which tends to be too linear.Just sayin.
My Mark Levinson preamp dying - looking for new preamp, sound as good, wont break bank
Hi - When I bought my Mark Levinson I thought I was done with upgrading, but over time the capacitors in it failed (and I had a magician with a soldering gun replace the Chinese capacitors with good tantalum ones). It sounded better than ever! That rescued the unit for about another 8 years, but it is failing again (volume knob not working, some inputs iffy, etc.) So I figure within the year, I will need a new preamp. I no longer care about a phono section. I have a Bryston 4b-SST amp driving Dunlavy SC-IV speakers (yes, more power than I need but I wanted to be prepared for whatever speaker I might get in the future as the Dunlavy's are big and heavy and I would like something more manageable, someday). I don't want a tube preamp as I don't want to wait for tubes to warm up - hence solid state. What do people like, say in the under $5k range? (or must I spend a bit more to get Mark Levinson quality sound?)
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