Best Balanced Tube Preamplifier

I recommend the Aesthetix Callisto Signature if you have the rack space. They don't come up used very often though.

The *best* balanced tube preamp is the Vacuum State RTP3D - but it does not have "tuby" colourations - nor does it have SS colourations.

Regards, Allen

The Rogue Hera or Athena is Superb, the 6h30 is the most linear preamplifier tube out there The Bat sound may be darker is because they use a bunch of Jensen oil caps.Where Rogue uses the Excellent Mundorf Supreme
which are a balanced cap in their own right double wound
to cancel inductance and very musical without going over the Top.The Athena is 95% of the Hera and I have owned the big named products .the parts quality alone in the $5k Athena betters most at more than $10k I know I compared
and next to Audiovalve that TAS magazine gave an award to
the Athena bettered that without much trouble .I owned one for over a year,a very good unit but a little colored
and not as expansive.The Hera brings another 5% to the table .Next time you shop compare what's inside and yes both units have seperate power supplys.