Thoughts from Joule preamp owners?

Thanks to everyone. I think Joule has some more new factory upgrades on the way, and they sell with a 30-day-satisfaction option.

In looking through user comments on the web on many sites over a decade, Joule has voluminous amounts of high user praise and does not seem to be a flavor of the month thing.

My only personal experience with Joule was from the Merlin rooms at the NY Stereophile show several times for long sessions where the sound was very fine in every respect and compelling to the point where I did not want to leave (which was true of very few rooms, except maybe for some megabuck rooms like the VSR VR9, Joseph Audio Pearl, and Dynaudio Evidence rooms). Of course I can't isolate the Joule contribution, but it certainly did no harm.

I had an ARC Ref1 and ML #32 long ago and thought the ARC was too propulsive and the ML lacking some tube palpable-ness that I have come to crave.

I really want a remote so I turned away from Shindo, which I know has high praise. I tried some passives and also missed my tube magic and gave up on them.
Again, thanks for the responses.

I think based on what you are looking for, the Joule will not disappoint. Good luck! Hope you like it.

I would also take a look at the Cary SLP-05

Yep, I thought about the Cary, as they are quite cheap used now, but I read they lack some definition, plus you have an extra power supply box. And they have 8 6NS7 tubes, and I have dealt with 6NS7 rolling and it can get expensive.
Thanks for the suggestion Brf!

Both good, but if you are already into the Joule camp, stay there.