I'd prefer to feed my idea pre/pro 2ch audio digital. Via coax or HDMI for hi rez.
Right now, I use a benchmark dac but if I found my ideal pre/pro, i could remove the benchmark and rely on the dac section of the pre/pro to do the decoding. In pre/pro fantasy land I couls also let go of my 2ch pre as well.
At the moment, I dont have any sources that I run analog output from.