What preamp would you mate to your Rogue M180's?

Well my Audible Illusions m3a sounds great with my 120's.

All the Rogue monoblocks's 120's 150s' and 180's have a very high input impedance and very high gain, they are a great match for a passive preamps and do not need any active preamplification at all.

You may even have the problem of them being already too loud at 9 o'clock volume with an active preamp, because of the amount of gain the 180's have.

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Cheers George

I'm intending to use the Bryston BP26 Preamp.
What do you think of this solid state / valve combination? Joseph

My response is a little late. I have used the Aesthetix Calypso with nos tubes with the M180 for two years and have really enjoyed them. No desire to change.

I have a Rogue 99Magnum preamp driving M180s and sounds fine. I like the variable gain feature on the preamp too.

ARC has a very clean sound the proverbial wire with (plenty of) gain. I v found BAT has a similar sound but if you like ARC why not stick with it?
I personally love the rich/full highly 3D sound of 6SN7s and found Cary to be my cup of tea. If you want to get a sense of what the Cary sound is like on the cheap, see if you can get an AES AE3 most any version. Roll the 6SN7s to older NOS or OS tubes to get the best sound.

I'm very happy with the BAT 3iX/Rogue M-180 combination. The BAT has survived several bouts of upgraditis. I do wish it had the nicer interface of the more expensive BAT preamps. I'm currently using all EH tubes in the 3iX.

ARC ls26 (again), Cary SLP98 F-1 or SLP-05, Modwright 36.5, VTL 5.5, Conrad Johnson (any of them!).

I love ARC gear, with almost anything.