Sorry, I can’t agree that one should stay away from tubes. In preamps and phonostages they last for a very long time and can be replaced really easily. But mor importantly in applications of well designed preamps and phono-stages, generally ;ly sound much better. Easy trade off… buy tubed.
Question regarding older phono preamp
My phono preamp is by far the oldest piece of gear in my system. It's a 1998 Tokyo Sound PE100 I got off the Gon here about 5 years ago used. My question is do the internals of a solid state phono preamp degrade over time? Everything sounds good to me so no issues. I'm considering "upgrading" to a new unit possibly tube.
Thanks!