Help choose a preamp ... Belles & Wyred


Two channel preamp...hometheater bypass...in the $2000 area. I think I have it narrowed down to a couple of options. 1) Belles Audio 22A or 2) Wyred4sound
STP-SE. Any and all suggestions/comments would be appreciated. I mostly listen to singer-songwriters (piano,guitar) and vocals. Thanks for the help!
solda

I'm using a Belles 21A with Auricaps and love it! I have both RCA BP and CV4003 Mullards and prefer the Mullards in my system.

Wig
I would go with the Belles also. As far as W4S gear, the professional reviews are universally glowing. Impressions of actual owners (including myself) are a lot more mixed, to say the least. Of course, you could always try the W4S for a 30-day trial period and return if not to your liking. Of course, W4S emphasizes that they strongly discourage returns and recommend an enormous amount of burn-in that would be hard to complete in a 30-day trial, unless you ran your unit 24/7 for three straight weeks.
have not heard wyred, but just bought belles 21a and it beats almost all I have ever heard!!! I use this with Vac 160 musicblocks and audio note dac 3 sig...old theta transport and apogee clock in between...avalons or def tech st towers with sub...killer sound which really improved with the 21a!!!!