Sleeper Vintage Tube Gear?

Grommes

50's HH Scott 220 with Telefunken tubes and auto-bias full function amp.

In another post I mention wanting to rip my LP's to digital because some were never offered on CD.

I have a Kenwood C1 preamp that I'm thinking of doing some upgrade mods to. I love the sound of tube gear for guitar work and am wondering if something like a Dynaco PAS tube preamp would sound better than the upgraded Kenwood C1 if I modded the PAS' phono section?

Anyone have any experience with this?

I do, you must realize that the PAS does not have cathode followers so it will only work well into an amp with high input impedance.

It will sound very differerent than the C1. But better, that's a subjective judgement that you must make for yourself.

I think a vintage tube or SS preamp in the signal chain will impose too much of its sound on the recordings. I would bypass the preamp and go directly into a CD recorder. Its a much cleaner solution, and if you want to do any type of processing, it will be much easier to do it working from a CD.