Top rated passive preamps


Any top rated passive preamps with balanced and rca inputs and balanced outputs with a remote?
seadogs1
I am a big fan of the transformer/autoformer variety of preamps. I currently own a Sonic Euphoria PLC which has bested a lot of active preamps up to ~6K in my system. The PLC also beat out a Bent Audio TAP to my ears.

Shakey
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Tvad.....couldnt agree more! The SMc VRE pre has only 6dB of gain and
Ive had my fair share of passives over the last 6 years and the VRE is the
cleanest sounding pre (and most musical) that I've heard.
This includes the $95,000 Kondo M1000 !!!!!
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