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tube pre-amp for active monitors

I have Airpulse Model 1(A200) active monitors currently fed by MacBook Pro > Tidal > Wyred4Sound Re-Clocker > SMSL SU8 > balanced XLR out. I wonder if a tube preamp might yield some gains.... anything not-expensive that might fit the bill? Looking for a bit more enveloping soundstage....
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@atmasphere 
i do not need a phono section. I only use the MacBook pro. Budget would be.. budget as in less than 200 dollars.
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@atmasphere 
no chi-fi would be appropos?
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@mrdecibel 
I was thinking along the same lines but thought that a tube might give up some majik for the ribbon tweeters. I currently have the monitors toed in about a foot in front of me noggin. I need to take the room or of the sound field as it is long, narrow and ask hard surfaces.
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@georgehifi
I am using the XLR balanced inputs on the Air Pulse monitors
canibefrank OP
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I wonder if there is a simple stereo tube buffer I can fit between DAC and monitors? 
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@almarg  
The balanced inputs bypass the built-in dac and tone stack
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@soundsrealaudio

I use the SMSL SU-8 dac via USB with a Wyred4Sound Re-Clocker
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