Thinking about moving to a tube pre - suggestions.

The lack of any product for sale on Audiogon can be due to a number of reasons that may or may nor have anything to do with quality of a product or its popularity.

An item may sell only a handful of units in a given year, making the pool of available used units very small. Also, some products are sold primarily through word of mouth or through non-internet channels. Doshi preamps are an example that come immediately to mind.

Also, owners of a given item might not be frequent users of Audiogon. For example, I can think of certain manufacturers that have a much more avid following on AudioCircle, and therefore used examples of their products will be found more often on AudioCircle.

Or it is just that good for so little..............
do not ask me..................I do not own Mapletree preamp myself and do not want to sound like a broken record.
From my own, somewhat limited experience of few hours of listening sessions
in systems that I wasn't really familiar with, it sounded great.
If you need some references, I will be happy to get you in touch with someone who owns two.......one stock and other modified. He might be more helpful then I am.

Regards
Mariusz

You cannot go wrong with the mapletree if you don't care about chassis build quality. It has that DIY look but Doc's preamps sound great. I always liked the NOS 12sn7 tubes better than the 6sn7 and you don't have to pay the ridiculous $$ that the 6sn7 go for. When mapletrees go on sale, they are sold within hours, that should tell you something also.

Pulled the trigger on the mapletree. Cant wait to hear it.

It won't disappoint.
Great choice.
It is a keeper.

Best
Mariusz