Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition


Passive, tubes, solid state, jewel encrusted moon rocks, whatever. 
 

tell us what line stages blew you Away in the $2500 ish price catagory.

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@fuzztone "Used Sanders line stage." Do you mean Mike Sanders' Quicksilver products?

Unfortunately I think there are a lot of systems out there where the preamp is the bottleneck....  that said there are great speakers that aren’t realizing their full potential, sold off for the latest and greatest.... it’s a vicious circle 

@oddiofyl  100% agree and I feel like that’s where I’m at. I like my line stage but it’s the only piece that hasn’t “wow’d me” from its install. I feel like a great line stage for the money is where I can make that leap.

People are saying a lot of good things about the Backert but still it’s $4500 so not cheap ...  Rogue is probably best bang for the buck and fits price wise.  Rogue consistently puts out good stuff.