On a related note to your comment about adding another 0 to the price. I've had a handful of tube preamps over the years that were warm-ish and very musically involving but it took a rather expensive tube preamp to additionally deliver on the bandwidth, dynamics, punch, and resolution. The best tube preamp I ever had was the Cary SLP-05 running a batch of 6SN7 tubes. It was pricey even well over a decade ago.
