Are most tube preamps ‘ultra linear’?


Is ultra linear prefered ?

hard to discern this designation when reviewing specs. 
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Single ended amps are not so obviously the purest thing around. They are low power with lots of second order harmonic distortion. They react with reactive speaker loads so their output is not flat. And they are non-linear. They compress the negative half of a wave form relative to the positive half.
@dynamiclinearity  the first sentence explains the why of the last sentence- the two are one and the same.