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Why a line preamp?

It's been my understanding that the best component is a straight wire. Further, before the the advent of the phono a preamp was not required. All that was needed was a volume control. Now with the reduced usage of the phono we find we must have the line stage preamp. Where's the straight wire philosphy? Why do we need anything more than a volume control and selector switch? Today I connected my McIntosh tuner directly into my amp since the tuner does have a volume control. It sounded better.
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I have an Audio Research LS2 MkII

I've compared it to an LS5 which is much more musical.

The LS2 has alot of slam but is a little too bright on the top end. Glaring at times.

I just bought an EVS Millenium II dac with a volume attenuator (ultimate attenuators) option on the back so that I can run it direct to the power amp, haven't tried that option yet but the dac did add phenominal low end to the pre amps capabilities.

I do alot of taping to a Nakamichi 3 head, so would like something with tape monitor capability, don't need a phono stage.

is the Reference in that category???

thanks

TOm
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