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budget balanced pre amp, tube or SS?

I now have option of balanced power on amps and wonder if there a budget options on pre amps, something that would work well with Classe power and VMPS speaker that are pretty revealing so any ideas would great, thanks! I am useing Sonic Frontiers SFL1 hybrid pre now, rock and classical music.....Lexicon and Sota/Dynavector sources.
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jb0194
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Zephyr:

Google: "kandkaudio"

Yes, my preamp has dual balanced outputs for mains/stereo subs.
jb0194
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"Budget" means different things to different folks but, if $2000 or so (depending upon custom features such as dual volume controls) is reasonable, a K&K Audio Active Linestage can be built new with Lundahl input, output and power trannies and beautiful Seiden stepped volume control(s). Uses a pair of Soviet military 6N6P tubes that remain dirt cheap, so re-tubing will not hurt at all. Very transparent, dead quiet (the quietest pre I've ever had) and, in my rig, topped sonically only by a much costlier (but not fully balanced) Audio Note. It smokes the top line balanced (c-core) Prometheus TVC in my system.
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