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Threshold T-200. Help me choose a preamplifier

Good day, Colleagues!
Not so long ago, at an auction in Japan, I accidentally won the Threshold T-200 amplifier. I really wanted this brand, but I was looking for the T-800D model. But it turned out to buy this amplifier ... And now I am very tormented with the choice.
I spent two days on the internet looking for balanced amplifiers. Here is a list, is there anything on this list worth seeing?
Pass Labs X1 - 
This preamplifier is sold in Russia at a very good price, it seems to me. 1800 dollars. But I do not know his condition. The photographs show that the cable that connects the power supply and the preamplifier itself is frayed. And the power supply is not complete, but a small black box.
Pass Labs X2.5 - I found this preamp for 2000 euros in Croatia, but shipping will cost around 500 euros, so it is already very expensive for me. 
Black Ice F-360 - A very interesting preamplifier. The ad suggests that this preamp has very high detail and can expand the scene. :) But I don't believe in advertisements.
Leema Acoustics Pyxis ll -  This amplifier is quite expensive, I found it in my country for $ 2500 and this is a showcase sample. It has an impressive range of features, there is a phono stage, which I also need, and balanced inputs and outputs.
Electrocompaniet ec 4.7
Electrocompaniet EC 4.8
Krell KSL-2
Audia Flight Pre
Quad Artera Pre
Rotel RC-5000
Audio research LS-15
audio research LS-2B
Spectron Model 10
Audio research LS 17
BAT VK-30
McIntosh C2200 - But this is already very dear to me.

I really look forward to your help and advice in choosing.

vetusto
vetusto OP
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but perhaps you should sell the Threshold and consider other options?
I can not do it.
You cannot imagine how difficult it is to get good equipment in Russia for not big money. As you can see from my description of my system, I brought almost everything from Japan. But I want to hear a really American sound. I hunted for Threshold T-800D for more than a year, but I could not find it for relatively reasonable money, in Russia these amplifiers are already all from collectors and are not on sale. And it is almost impossible to bring such heavy equipment from America.
And the fact that I came across this Threshold T-200 for $ 2300 at an auction in Japan - I think it’s a very big luck. This amplifier will float to me for 2 months. I have a lot of time. And thanks to you and this forum, I learned a lot about the Threshold brand, about the engineer who made this amplifier, and what a preamp should be like for it. I think, with your help, I will make the right choice, and my system will play magically.

I am very grateful to you all for your help! And I sincerely hope that you will continue to help me with the choice.

This is not rude, I wrote? :) It seems to me that I can make a lexicon mistake and inadvertently offend someone. :)
vetusto OP
46 posts
 
@rbaker ,  I saw your message. Thanks for the tip. But I just looked at the ModWright website, the LS 100 model has balanced inputs, but the output impedance of these inputs is 300 ohms.
unsound
7,341 posts
 
@vetusto, Not rude at all. My suggestion to sell, was in part due to system complications, but mostly because this 25 year old(?) amp could be a maintenance challenge.
vetusto OP
46 posts
 
Mark Levinson 380S
Mark Levinson No.38SL
All of them : Output impedance: less than 6 Ohm...
Haven’t I already found what I need so quickly? :) 
And at the Japanese auction they are still worth less than $ 1,500. I think by the end of the auction the price will rise to 2300 dollars, but I can survive it. What do you think, dear friends, should I buy one of these preamplifiers?
vetusto OP
46 posts
 
@unsound ,  now have a Yamaha A2000. Graduated in 1979. He is 42 years old - the same as me. :)) Was under repair 1 time, and then only because he has thermoset terminals, which once just crumbled in my hands when I tightened the cable tightly in them. The specialist replaced these terminals with modern ones and checked all the transistors, resistors, capacitors, etc., and said that everything is in a state close to ideal. Isn't Japanese technology already more durable than American one? :) I really, really want to hear the American sound. None of my acquaintances have an old-era American amplifier. Except for Mcintosh.
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