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Pre for the Manley Snapper

Everytime i visit a hifistore, and tell them about a pre for the Manly Snapper. They always tell med different preamps, and the shop that has the Manley snapper mono amps they tell me, that i cant use that or that. I have to but the pre they are selling. 
And of course i can buy the Manley Steelhead, and thats the end of it. It will fit like a glove. But i hope to find something cheaper than the Steelhead. Probably with a dac and streaming device. But i hope for a pre that dont have digital volume. Because with digital volume, i get the feeling when i play on low volume that there is something holding back the sound. It fells compressed in the sound, if you understand my thinking. 
So does anybody know of a good pre for the snapper that dont cost more than maybe 5.000€ perhaps.
So any suggestion you good folks out there in the sound jungle

Haakon 
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murraylives
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You can run most anything with the Snappers and their 330Kohm input impedance. Also don’t really need to worry about XLR unless you’re trying to run your amps in a different room from the pre or something.

Manley pre’s tend to do a couple things really well (at most), and that’s it. I love the 300B preamp with a Chinook, but that doesn’t sound like it’d meet your needs.
murraylives
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Linestage/preamp are arbitrary designations. Some say anything without a phono is a linestage, some say whatever’s between the source and the amp is PREamp. It’s all angels on the head of a pin. 

OP, I’ve never heard a bad thing about the C-22 reissues, and you can find them used in the $4,800 ballpark; can’t think of a reason there wouldn’t be good synergy. With monoblocks I’d prefer a dual mono pre, but I doubt it really matters at the end of the day. 
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