Any other info you can share with me would be appreciated.

Thanks, Ron

I tried a Blue Circle 21.1 preamp to go with it, but the sound was not very good at all. The same preamp with my MC-240 was okay. So I am wondering about useful preamps with this amp. I had a friend come over with a Bottlehead Foreplay which played very nice. Just hard to match up a preamp with, could that be transformer coupled problem?

I have had this for approx a year, the sound is good once you roll some "old stock" tubes to replace the chinese tubes which tend to be forward and lack the subtle details that vintage tubes have. I know a friend with a S45 Moth amp that shows the difference in quality though.

Thanks, Ron

Some use a look-up factor of 200 or more as a guide. Hopefully some of the brains will see this post and chime in, Eric and Wayne.

Input impedance of the Tulip is 100k so you would probably want 500ohm output impedance on your pre-amp. My AES is 560ohm output impedance. If you were close by I would run it by, but if not try and borrow one. It's a nice sounding unit and it would probably work for you.

That Tulip I believe can run 45's as is; no?

You know as an aside; there will always be something better. Like the Moth; since it sells for 4times the price of the Tulip, it better be. Hope this helps; J.R.

So far, the Bottlehead Foreplay preamp plays well with it, Bill Epstein came down and we tried it, sounded wonderful.

I will try the L1 soon, but busy schedule for next couple of days with domestic stuff I have to do, will report findings when I do.

Cheers, Ron