Dagostino hd momentum, is lack of rubes a problem?

jumia OP
Is lack of tubes in their hd momentum preamp cause for concern when paired with a ss amp?

jasonbourne52
It’s the designer’s choice! Tubes or transistors - either can make sonically excellent circuits! The disadvantage tubes have is that they age and need replacement.

It’s simple and should be.
One has more distortion and colorations, the other has minimal.
The one that will be "truer to the sound of the source", will be the Dan.

And if you don’t like it, "you don’t like the sound of of your source".
So change the source and get off the merry go round, otherwise all your trying to do is re-mix tonally the music yourself.
If that’s what you want to do (re-mix), save your bucks and get the new Schiit 6 band Lokius EQ
https://www.schiit.com/products/lokius

Cheers George

Nice reply mr george.  Maybe a cheaper pre with tubies and then spend the farm on a nice ss pre.  Maybe two pres will cure my mental turmoil.

then spend the farm on a nice ss pre.

Why spend the farm on a pre.
Like I said if you need to color the sound to your liking with a tube pre, you don’t get off on the sound of your source.
Better to change the source to one you like.

If you don’t change your source get a $49 Schiit Sys passive pre after it.
https://www.schiit.com/products/sys
Then the Sys into the $299 Schiit 6 band Lokius EQ, and it to your amp
https://www.schiit.com/products/lokius

Cheers George

A solid state pre amplifier has always sounded better to me with a solid state amplifier i always hear a bad impedance mismatch when i have tried to mix the two types, tubes and transistors.

So confusing
is impedance matching meaningful? How does it work?