Preamp recommendation

[DigiPete]

A Pre Pro from Integra, Yamaha, or Marantz should enable you to do all that. It may even have XLR outs to feed your Opals and Genelecs.

 

 

Welcome to CA, Edwardo

 

Serge_S is stuck in ancient technology, I'll jump 30 years ahead and talk about today's digital solutions.

 

Get a professional multichannel ADDA sound card and skip or sell all the analogue equipment.

The CD player is also utterly redundant and the TT makes no sense unless you have rare records that needs digitizing.

 

 

M/C sound cards to consider:

 

Lynx Aurora 8

Metric Halo LIO-8

Mytek 8X192 ADDA

 

The latter if you are of the DSD persuasion (128x)

 

 

Fully Digital

 

If that is not digital enough for you, go to fully active, digital input monitors with DSP room correction.

My favorites are the Genelec SAM series:

 

Genelec Smart Active Monitors (SAM) , specifically the:

 

SAM™ Coaxial Studio Monitors

 

I think this is the best high-end sound for money available out there.

 

 

Professional equipment vendors

 

Thomann in Europe

 

Vintage King in US

 

 

Good luck and please feel free to ask more specific questions.

[DigiPete]

Edwardo,

You won't get a good phono pre section in a pre amp under $2k. TAS recommends the NuForce MCP-18 at that price point. Parasound P5 may also be worth taking a look at. Do plan on spending between $400~$700 for a separate phono preamp if you have an LP collection and spend more than $1K on a turntable.

 

 

The digital world also offers a better and cheaper RIIA.

You will still need that appropriate step-up transformer or phono pre, but your ADDA and computer will do the rest.

 

You know vinyl wears at astronomical speed, so save your vinyl by digitizing the signal before it's even more compromised.

Save that virgin vinyl sound while you can (in 24/96).

 

Software packages:

 

Channel D PureVinyl @ USD 299,-

 

Amarra Vinyl (Sonic Studio Audio Repair Tool) @ USD 595

 

Both conveniently splits tracks, de-clicks and all the other nice little digitizing tricks.

Both also includes memory buffered digital players full of other digital tricks.

I have a preference for Channel D products despite their terrible looks :-)

 

 

Just like CD's - vinyl should only be played once !!!

I.e. when they are ripped.