Most Quiet TUBE Preamp. Linestage. $ 12K or less

Second Cedars response on the Audio Horizons TP 2.0 preamp.

It's the one to hear, just taking too long to get recognized (a real shame)

What is this, 1945? Guess which well designed tube line stage over 1000.00 is dead quiet? ALL OF THEM. Geez

Noise on your power line. Have you considered the source of power to your equipment. Toroid transformer can hum like the dickens with any DC or other pollution on the line. If this question arises because your equipment sometimes hums and sometimes not, you need filtering. Don't go cheep. I purchased an Isotek Syncro cable and everything in my system is quiet now. I use to be able to hear my amp hum from across the room. The sound is also just that much better in my opinion. It cleaned up a little of the treble breakup at high frequency.

I have a BAT Rex with a Krell 400e amp. The system is truly dead quiet. I have three dedicated lines for the AC into the system and I swear that regardless of volume level of the pre there is no noise NONE coming out of those speakers. The speakers are Revel Salon 2, with an Esoteric K-01 for the source, and the whole system sounds great.

The preamp that I make is the quietest and best sounding!

Happy Listening.