Wow Cytocycle, sorry to hear about your bad experience with CJ and the premier 14. I've had one for several years and had the opposite experience, great service and longivity on the tubes...go figure. I think this preamp is one of the best certainly in it's price range versus performance.
CJ Premier 14 vs. VTL TL5.5 & TL2.5
Has anyone directly compared the CJ Premier 14 to any of the VTL preamps? I want a tube pre that has a good built in phono stage and remote volume control. I think my CJ sounds great but it does not have phono.