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Submitted By: dbdog
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Is a warm & detailed solid state preamp possible for under $2500 used?
Posted: August 3, 2011 - 1:14pm

Ok, I'm almost there with all but a preamp to bring it together. I use my system all day every day so tubes are likely gonna burn out fast. I have:

Thiel 3.6 speakers

Bryston 4B-SST amp

Bryston BDA-1 DAC

Rega P3 w/ RB300 and Dynavector 10x5

and... what preamp??????

My room is hairly hard so bightness needs to be minimized. I also favor a warmer sound in general.

I have on hand a Bryston BP25 (very bright and fatiguing) and a McIntosh C15 (better but a not super transperent and detailed). 

I'm considering:

Classe, Simaudio, Krell, Pass, Mark Levinson, Parasound, Placette. 

Any suggestions as to which models to look at? What am I missing?

Many thanks for reading.

Cheers

dbdog

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jackfish's picture
Submitted By: jackfish
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Location: Western Wisconsin
Joined: Dec 19 2005
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What am I missing?
Posted: August 3, 2011 - 4:58pm

Acoustical room treatments.

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Submitted By: tom collins
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Location: northern kentucky
Joined: Apr 3 2007
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warm
Posted: August 4, 2011 - 6:51am

consider a Doge 8.  uses small common tubes with very long life.  built like a tank, sounds great, around $1500 with stock tubes, buy a set of really good tubes and keep the originals for spares.  check out the review on salvatore's high end audio page.  i have one, can't be happier.

good luck.

 

tom

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