After more than a decade of using TVC's from Bent I have got the itch to sample another valve pre. For a short while I ran a Mastersound PHL5 as I needed the extra gain for a cartridge I was using at the time but it went soon after the cartridge did as I preferred the TVC. The ModWright 36.5DM, the two chassis version, has piqued my interest. I was surprised to see there have been quite a few owners on SNA over the last 5 years.
So - how good is it and what have those who have sold one moved onto? What else should be considered against it?
My active speakers have a low 10k input impedance so this restricts compatibility somewhat, the 36.5 is transformer coupled on its output so matching is not an issue with it although this seems to be the exception rather than the norm.
Over to the wisdom of SNA
cheers,
Simon