Ruben1
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Tube preamp and SS preamp Combined
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Musical Fidelity makes just the thing for you. They are called tube buffers and some people swear by them. Sam Tellig was a big fan of those things when they first came out. He used them between budget CD players and preamps or integrateds.

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Tubalizer is cheaper and adds a nice sound to my SS system.
http://www.audiodigit.com/index.php?section=81

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Ruben,first-of-all,you can't do that,simply for technical reasons.A pre amplfifies the signal from a cd player and it's output characteristics(of the pre) are different,so.in a few words,you can't connect a pre to a pre.Also,even if you could do that,the signal would be compromised having to pass through 2 pre-amplifiers.The way i see it,you have 2 solutions.You either connect your cd player through a tube baffer as Monty recommended or purchase a new,good tube pre amplfifier with remote control.

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Yiangos, I am very interested in knowing what is the technical reason why running the CD player into the tube pre amp first and then running the output from the tube pre into the McIntosh and using the McIntosh pre as basically a volume control unit would not work. Can anyone else explain the reasons? Thank you everyone.

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Of course you can hook teh out of one preamp to a line level in to anotehr pre amp...just be careful with levels, start everything with the vol way way down, until you get a feel for what it's gonna do level wise. the output of one pre amp is just a controlled high level signal, just like from a analog CD out..or tuner or cassette deck..volts is volts only Phono is a different thang

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