£ Î Z @ R Ð wrote:
Anyone have a good recommendation for a warm, tube, 2-channel mic preamp for
around four hundred clams?

No. You can't even get the power supply section and the case for that
much. Most of the inexpensive "tube" preamps are cheap solid-state preamps
with cheesy tube-based distortion stages.

Why not get a preamp that sounds good, and not worry about what technology
it's built with?
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."