When my belles 350a ref. sells, I may ask the preamp dealer for a no strings demo. The preamp is the tri trv 4se limited with phono. Not much info. available on the triode corp. products as they are new to the US but I sure love their SET monoblocs. I am also wanting to get into vinyl and the phono would allow this. I have no experience with vinyl though, since I was a kid so I am a little reluctant. Thanks.
tube amp vol control vs. preamp
What are your experiences regarding bypassing a preamp and using tube amp volume controls? A distributor stated that by installing the mating preamp to my mono's with volume control that everything would be much, much better. I had a tubed preamp connected initially and had lots of noise. Dead quiet using amps only and sounds great as is with high eff speakers. Could it be that much better using matching preamp. Your experiences are greatly appreciated.