What Preamp for ML Sequals & ESL amp?

Tube preamps are a great idea, but they all sound different tonally speaking. Same with CDP's, in fact. If i had to choose only one tube component it would be the pre amp. What what flavor sound do you expect from your pre-amp and CDP? Warm, cold, neutral, etc. From what i understand your speakers and amp probably would be on the cool side. By the way you might like to do a little bit of research on the Shanling - it seems to be getting some bad press, i.e. looks good but sound or quality control isn't up to par.

Keerwilson, i note that your Innersound amp has an imput impedence of 50K ohms - if this is correct you should not have a mismatch with a tube preamp of most any make. In addition to the CJ preamp you looked at you might also want to look at some of the better older CJ Premier's, ARC's and Sonic's Frontiers SFL's, assuming a remote is not mandatory. You would more likely find them to have a warmer tone.