Who is using their receiver as a preamp only?

In my secondary set-up I use a Pioneer VSX-D601. In addition to my preamp it serves as my phono stage and a tuner. I didn't want to go too crazy spending all sorts of $ on various components with my secondary set-up so I opted to use the VSX-D601. To my ears it is doing a fine job. The Pioneer Elite or some Pioneer models in general really aren't that bad quality wise. I wouldn't give up on that Pioneer Elite yet. What model # is it?

I use the Pioneer Elite 94 as a pre. It allows me to have HT, and drive a zone 2 with channels 6 & 7. Feeds a Rotel 1095 and sounds pretty good. My next purchase will be a preamp with a HT bypass to improve the 2 channel sound, and keep all the functionality.

I have an old but versatile and good quality NAD 7020 receiver that I use as a spare receiver, amp, pre-amp tuner as needed.

I swapped it into my second system last winter when the pre-amp there developed a problem and have been satisfied enough to leave it in since, though eventually I would like to get a newer pre-amp for that system and return the NAD to spare/bench duties only.