Hi. I can second rocray's comments. About 6 months ago I purchased an Aric Audio Transcend 6SN7 tube pre-amp to pair with my Magnepan 1.7i's.
and ancient Parasound H2200 power amplifier.
The Transcend transformed this system. It works very well with my SS amp and really opened up the Magnepans in a way that I was unable to achieve with my SS pre-amp. As rocray noted, Aric is a pleasure to work with. My version of the Transcend is Line Stage only, as I can't be bothered with records, or even CD's anymore. But Aric Audio does sell units with Phono Stages as well as separate phono stages.
His stuff is all point to point hand soldered and, as far as I know, all single ended. It sounds great.
The Transcend transformed this system. It works very well with my SS amp and really opened up the Magnepans in a way that I was unable to achieve with my SS pre-amp. As rocray noted, Aric is a pleasure to work with. My version of the Transcend is Line Stage only, as I can't be bothered with records, or even CD's anymore. But Aric Audio does sell units with Phono Stages as well as separate phono stages.
His stuff is all point to point hand soldered and, as far as I know, all single ended. It sounds great.