tube pre suggestions

Airt tight ATC-3; rarely talked about on Audiogon. I have had one for years - it was a fine, excellent sounding tube pre-amp. Then I had Jospeh Chow of Audio Horizons modify it - he even took out the power supply and built another box to house it in. Along with other upgrades, this is a stunningly transparent, highly musical pre-amp capable of excellent low-level detail retrieval and can also generate very nice spatial/imaging cues to your ears.

There is one for sale now for about 1800 dollars; I am thinking of buying the ATC-2 that is more expensive that I presume is even better than the fine ATC-3.

The Audio Horizons tube pre-amp is also another fine performer and is a tremendous value as well.

Sorry, I re-read your post and picked up the need for remote contorl.

I don't use them so my brain skipped that part of your post initially. Nevertheless, the pre-amps I talked about are fine 2 ch pre-amps minus the convenience of a remote.

I can tell you that the deHavilland ultraverve is a darn good preamplifier. Don't take my word for it...find someplace where you can listen if possible. I have had mine for about three years and love the music.

Lector Zoe - my best kept secret...

the Lector Zoe is a excellent preamplifier with 4 different tubes choices to tune your system
The Vintage 6h30-dr Tubes from the 70s have more control and really put this pre in there with the majority of $4-$5 k preamps out there it is a solid all around performer it replaced a modified Modwright that was pretty
decent.