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If You Were A Swine Looking To Choose Between 3 Preamps...

Looking to make a choice for a pre to use with an H2O audio 250 Signature amp I recently acquired. The amp sounds lovely running off the tube stage of a Musical Fidelity NuVista integrated. On a lark I boght an Edge SI 1M pre amp to try with it. If this combo doesnt work out, then it gets paired with a First Watt F7 I have.

In that case I need to look at a different pre, and may go tube as the Nuvistor internals on the MF work well with this amp.

Being a pig of limited means I have looked at the used market and came up with 3 interesting choices.

Allnic L3000 MK II

Line Magnetic 512 CA( Japanese voltage)

Triode Corp Trv 4se

Any one of these have to be bought un-auditioned, as two are coming from Canada, one from New York.

Anyone have any insights of the 3 candidates?


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almarg -  I appreciate your analytic advice.  I'm using Parasound JC 1 monoblocks (100 kΩ bal input) with a JC 2 BP preamp (60 Ω output). I'm trying to predict how well the JC 1s might pair with a Ayre KX-5 Twenty preamp, but Ayre doesn't include output impedance in the specs.  I'm currently using the Ayre preamp with a VX-5 Twenty (2MΩ bal input) stereo amp, but expect to consolidate two setups into one in the future.

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