Suggestions for a tube pre and power amp

@agbrace Your both speakers need lot of power I assume. You have very good power amps. I understand the importance of synergy between amp and speakers. I like luxman build quality and I dont want to go sidewise after the upgrade to pre power from Luxman.

Since you are familiar with F228Be I think F328Be must be a step up over it. Revel F328Be is really good speaker (well measured) but again synergy between amp and speaker plays a big role. Beryllium tweeters are very transparent and if recordings are bad it will show immediately and with good recording it sounds very good with Revel and Luxman combo. I have top of line AVR from Arcam (class G) and when I use (You tube/blue rays) it with Revel all bad recordings sound good but when paired with  Luxman Revel highlights the issue very quickly.

@vthokie83  Thanks for sharing your experience with S5.5 and Motherlode XL preamp. I was also thinking S5.5 will be more than enough for my speakers based on my experience with Luxman 590 30W class A integrated. However some members expressed concerns due to low impedance and phase angle and Luxman's power spec is underrated.

I will talk to Doug Dale at Coda an decide. Last week I was very busy with work hence couldn't talk, I  will do it coming week.

+1 for Aric Audio, had a Super 6SN7 awhile back, very nice and beautiful build quality. 

@yyzsantabarbara how would you compare the Coda 16 to the Continuum No.8 V1? That is an upgrade I would seriously consider but a pretty big bump in price.

Thanks. 

@lals 

It might be a good idea to read up about speaker loads and how these loads affect amplifier performance. We often obsess about impedance, but fail to consider phase.