I like the CJ. I can just about guarranty that if I had the same pre/proc as you and asked another audio question, someone would tell me to "dump the pre/proc and get a 2 channel pre".
Being new to this hobby can be pretty difficult at times, especially when you haven't heard enough examples of high end sound to really make a quality judgement on gear. Not knowing about audio but "knowing" what I like could be the same as not knowing art but knowing what I like, next thing you know I'll have a house full of Bose to with my velvet Elvis paintings and people will laugh at me.
Being new to this hobby can be pretty difficult at times, especially when you haven't heard enough examples of high end sound to really make a quality judgement on gear. Not knowing about audio but "knowing" what I like could be the same as not knowing art but knowing what I like, next thing you know I'll have a house full of Bose to with my velvet Elvis paintings and people will laugh at me.