BUI - Guilty

all kinds of interest in the BAT tube preamp. 33se or 53se on sale/used

@OP,  I hope you have some hours this holiday weekend to sit back with the BAT!  Enjoy!

I got in about 5 hours last night, I just couldn't stop listening and comparing.  I know the new tubes aren't even burned in yet, but what I heard last night was extremely promising.

This preamp has balls, something I would not normally attribute to a preamp.  Bass was deep, extremely tight, and fast.  That continued up through the entire spectrum.  Soundstage is much improved in depth, width, height, especially localization.  It's also dead quiet.  Pausing a digital source while listening at very high levels, the Maggie's were totally silent, even with my ear right up to the speakers.

Not at all what I expected from a tube preamp, in a very, very good way. I could not detect any deficiencies comparing it to my current preamp.

This is almost certainly a keeper, at least so far.  As an added bonus, the Harmony has definitions for all the remote functions for my hub and remote, and it even has a ht bypass function.

Yeah it's hard when you can't hear the equipment on your own.You need will power not to buy something ,someone told you it was good,with hearing it yourself. 

I think I'm going to get small before shopping for a new amp when I'm ready. It sure worked out great this time :).

Takes me back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrdzCHnpw4