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Help me pick a phono preamp

Here's my rig-mmf7 tt with denon dl 160 cart, 211 tube mono amps, tube pre. now using a consonance pm 6 phono pre,not bad time to upgrade it. I want to keep it under 1k, and have been reading alot about the dynavector p75, ear, graham slee, lehman black cube, musical surroundings phonomena, and sim audio. I am not sure about going with a tube phono pre, because of the tube amps and preamp. may be too much tube. Any opinions on a good choice for my system? thanks.
cooch

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cooch OP
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i'll research it
cooch OP
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have a herbie's mat, and just got the cart. the cart stays for now
cooch OP
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have an eroica cart, but needs retipping
cooch OP
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the vas looks very nice, over the budget tho
cooch OP
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i have read great things about the ps audio..i'll put that on my list also....i am thinking i should go ss with the phono pre...out of the ones i mentioned and the ps audio, am i missing any? are any of these a notch aobe the rest? my tt is staying, for now at least.
cooch OP
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what about this heed quasar? someone just emailed me about one...never heard of it...he claims it is the best out of all of them....anyone know where that would rank? thanks for all of the input.
cooch OP
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well, i have to start somewhere, and for 1k it's either the 1k phono pre or a 1k cart....to me, the pre makes more sense...maybe a waste for now, but if it sounds better than what i have now it is not a waste...
cooch OP
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lets put it this way then, if you had 750-1K, where would you put it to get the most immediate sound upgrade, the tt, cart, or phono pre? i would think it would be the phono pre, yes or no?
cooch OP
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figure i'll be retipping my eroica cart also
cooch OP
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thanks all. Inna, I like what you did. I'm just not ready to do that. I guess back to my original question, what pho pre would improve on the one I have....seems like all of the ones mentioned would. And how often do you need to replace batteries if i went the sutherland route- i don't want to be buting batteries all the time either. anyone know about this heed quasar?
cooch OP
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thanks. i am going to check out the sutherland also
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