Best Tube Preamp under 2500?

God help you though if your Audible Illusions M3A ever breaks or needs to go in for service...you may never see it again any time soon!!! I personally talked with seveal people I met who've sent in for service to AI and waited 4, 6, 11 months for their repair to finish!!!...no joke. They're so far behind on regular orders, I bet you know where your repair would go on the priority list!...My condolences.

Definitely the Atma Shere MP3 line stage only. If you want phono it is more $$

Hi, Augie, you should definitely give Transcendend Sound's
Grounded Grid a try! I was looking for a pre-amp in 2K to 3K
range, and end up with GG. They even offer two week money
back trial. It's a very natural and musical pre-amp.

The Rogue 99 power supply and others things were totally revamped in 04 buy the Super Magnum it is Outstanding against any $4k preamp there also is a SE not advertised if you have the money beyond the Super Magnum. Mark Obrien can transform this to a reference grade
unit. The 6sn7 tube what you may call a little colored I call body and dimentiality. I had preamps with 6h30 tubes very accurate but not as alive or 3 d sounding IMO.