ModWright LS 99 Balanced Tube Preamp Review 

Wow 6 months already! Sounds like it really works well with your system. Would love it if you got something from Rogue Audio at some point. Their RH-5 headamp is very unique in both build and sound.

Looking forward to hearing about the KWA99 review. I have the PH 9.0 XT ordered. Moving on for an E Glo S I have owned for 5 years. I have tube power amps and I have an interest to try SS. The test of time is being good to ModWright. This means a lot to me.

Lots of unanswered questions. Price is $6500😮 No look inside? Coupling capacitors? Volume control architecture? For 9x less I'm playing with a Musical Paradise MP 701mk2. It actually allows for "modding" with a plethora of rectifier&signal tube choices: 1. 6.3V filament rectifier tubes: 6Z5P, 6X5. 2. 5V filament rectifier tubes: 5R4, 5U4G, 5AR4, GZ33, GZ34, 274B, 5Y3, 5Z3P. 3. 6.3V signal tubes: 6N11, 6N1P, E88CC, E188CC, CCA, 6922, 6H23, 6H6, 6H30, 6CG7, (6SN7 with 6SN7 to 6922 adapter). 4. 12.6V signal tubes: 12AU7, 12BH7, E80CC, (12SN7 with 6SN7 to 6922 adapter). Coupling capacitors can easily be rolled , as can bypass caps... Coincidentally, I've settled on big 5u4g rectifier, a Sylvania 6sn7 and two Jan Phillips 6922 for now with 2.2uf V-cap coupling capacitors (or Mundorf SGO EVO supremes) and HVL bypass caps.....For now😅 A different preamp every month for $1k?😮 Ok, so it's not balanced. I added a DENAFRIPS Hestia12th for that luxury, which leaves $4k to spend on the rest of the system and room treatments. Sold to the Budget Audiophile tweaker in the front row! 🎵🎶😊👌🎶🎵

Adding warmth or spaciousness...............hahahaha........truth is inverting facts when in reality some newer audiophile high end technologies loose warmth and spaciousness..........Marketting and audiophile beliefs are stronger than facts........ Balanced inputs/outputs ...OK............what about the circuit SE or symmetrical ? No two active devices are perfectly identical........the circuit may be silent but it will always eat away or change some finite ( or more) parts of the signal.. Pro use justified and still does use balanced connections ( for good reasons)............inside the circuit was SE for a reason ... Tube circuits well designed ( and using quality valves ) are very silent......tubes are more linear ( less distortion ) than SS , they are subject to thermal induced modulation and thermal distortion........there are too many bad tube designs today made by people who don't have the knowledge of the past....but think they can do better than the older school engineers. We saw what happened when the new gen engineers designed and modified the Boeing MAX...when computers are in control instead of the experience of the elderly... Hopefully MR got it right with then new pre this time ........bringing musoic alive instead of audiophile clean and lean nu impressive audiophile performance but far away from natural sound and music.............looking at the details of a flower but not seeing the beauty of the composition of the bouquet . Nice rectifier ..........but what tubes do you use ......or did you change to nos ? Presume the volume pot is propably a motorized ALPS......( standard in most preamps/amplifiers ), there are better pots but they are not motorized . I don't see a switch to protect and extend the lifetime of precious ( nos) tubes but that is neglected in most gear, pity for the tubes ......the warm up timelaps in some amps does not protect the tubes , only delays the switching of in/outputs .... Have a nice day