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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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stevecham
3,340 posts
 
pryso: If it has gain it’s a preamp.
pryso
1,928 posts
 
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.
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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