Warm, rich but detailed SS preamp (made you give up tubes)

Museatex AVC1, beautiful spatial quality to it.  I’ve had many different tube & SS combinations over nearly 40 years in this hobby, and if you don’t want a tube preamp, then try to find one of these.

  I’m sure there are many other SS preamps that are nice sounding as well, but if I were you and I wanted the sound of a tube preamp, I’d buy a tube preamp.

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Have always been curious about that little Morrison Elad preamp, looks so cool!  How is it & what did you use it with?

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Thank you so much for the very detailed response. I think it’s a super cool looking preamp, wish I only needed 2 inputs though. I still do vinyl, cassettes, and CDs in addition to streaming. I usually have a tuner too but got rid of it last year.

 

While it’s always system and room synergy that counts, how well your systems components get along with each other, in your set up and room environment, I’m sure I could be happy with any of these SS preamps, even though I’ve never actually heard any of them (except for the Museatex):

 

Motif MC7/8, Klyne, Dolan PM1, Nova CPA-100, Threshold FET 2, Spectral DMC10, Krell PAM 7, Museatex AVC-1