Best Balanced Solid State/Tube Preamps

In your opinion, what are the best tube/solid state preamps to audition to go with my Ayre V-5Xe and Modwright Platinum Truth 999ES CD/DVD player?

kmiller502-28-2006 9:49pm

sugarbrie Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,854 posts 02-28-2006 at 11:31pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete A tube/solid state preamp? In my experience a preamp with tubes is a tube preamp, ones without are solid state. A balanced preamp to me is one with DIN/XLR inputs and outputs whether tube or solid state. There are tube/ss balanced power amplifiers with tube input stage and solid state output stage. Maybe I'll learn something ??