You won't be wrong on Cary SLP-05, it is absolutely a remarkable pre. Tube rolling is fun, but the EH stock tubes are not bad at all.
Line Stage battle: ARC LS26 vs Aesthetix Calypso
Dear Members, This is my first post on Audiogon & I would like to thank Audiogon and it's members for a fantastic community of dedicated fans of high end audio. For my first post, I thought I'd pick two exceptional line stage pre-amps costing roughly the same, yet created along very different design philosophies and pose the question - In a no-holds barred cage match between the two, which pre comes out the winner?