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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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pryso
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"lack of inputs"?  Five inputs on the Jumbo Shrimp is not enough?
pryso
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Agree the Jumbo Shrimp seems the most logical answer.  However it is a line stage, not a full preamp, so no phono section.  I've read good things about the Manley Chinook phono stage (a stripped-down version of the Steelhead) which could then be added.  That would give more flexibility for inputs, balance, etc. than going with the Steelhead alone.
pryso
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steve, not that this matters to the OP but the traditional definition of a preamplifier is a control unit which includes a phono stage.  Back in the 1980 with the emergence of CDs enough consumers abandoned LPs that the phono stage became redundant.  So manufacturers responded by producing control units without built-in phono preamplifiers, they became known as line stages.  Thus the Jumbo Shrimp is a line stage.

Of course all this led to much confusion over the years. ;^)
pryso
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For those who may care about such things, to show I'm not being arbitrary, I'll offer Audio Research as an example.

In their product line up for years they designated full function preamplifiers (including phono stages) with the SP prefix.  For their control units minus the phono stage they designated a LS model identifier for line stage.
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