I have found that running my dac through a tube preamp sounds good, but I often need to listen briefly (30 minutes or less). The dac has preamp capability. Would it make sense to focus on a pre that can simply pass the dac signal through when I don’t have time to properly warm the tubes? Several of the preamps I looked at have pass thru, but they all use the tubes even for that. (My setup happens to be all balanced.)
Tube Pre-amp Suggestions.
I have a Coda No 8 power-amp and was looking for some suggestions on what would a good tube pre-amp that would pair up with it?
https://coda.cc/coda-no-8-amplifier
Thank you!