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Mixing SS and Tubes

I'm thinking about getting into tubes and have read threads about mixing SS amps with tube preamps. What about the other way around? Are there any advantages (or disadvantages) with mixing a ss preamp with a tube amp? I currently have a MAC MA6450 which I was thinking of using for the preamp side and then getting a reasonable tube amp to play around with. If this is worthwhile, any suggestions for the tube amp (< $1000) would be appreciated.

Thanks!
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sugarbrie
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Bill Thalmann at Music Technology (musictechnology.com) uses a Conrad Johnson Motif MC-10 solid state preamp with a Conrad Johnson Premier 8 tube amp with great results. Bill is a former Conrad Johnson engineer. I am sure if you email him at Music Technology, he would be glad to give you some feedback.

Tube preamp / solid state amp is more typical. Blue Circle actually makes a matching BC21 tube preamp and BC22 solid state amp. In a prior system, I use to run a Conrad Johnson tube PV-10 preamp, with their MF2100 solid state amp.

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