So how best to deploy available funds. Better to spend on a high end preamp or outstanding power amp? This assumes you already have high end stuff elsewhere in system.
The amp and preamp are both just as important as the other. If I spend 7K on a preamp, then I will spend 7K on an amp and probably by the same manufacturer. Synergy is everything.
Assuming the rest of the system makes sense, I'd usually suggest a better preamp, having heard and done way too many demonstrations of how a better preamp is generally preferable to a better power amp.
Again, assuming the system makes sense in the first place.
As Harry Bosch always says "Every amp matters or no amp matters". Best solution? No preamp!! Spend the whole wad on the new Merrill GAN monoblocks! Merry Holidays!
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