Advice on what preamp to select.

I have McIntosh C series and MX series and love them both. I prefer the C series for 2 channel and the MX for 5.1. I have McIntosh amps that turn on with the trigger output from the McIntosh preamp. If I use a different brands of amps the trigger doesn't work and I have to manually turn on the amps. Since I am lazy that would be the only reason I wouldn't prefer a McIntosh preamp since they sound wonderful.

what's your plans with 2 amps? multichannel or bi-amp or bridge-mono?
do you need preamp with two sets of outputs than?

 Thanks for the responses!  The Adcom's are mono block amps, not certain what arrangement might be best.  speakers are DQ10's with the DQ sub and crossover. They do like clean power so I am trying this configuration 
this system will not be used for AV purposes. Just music, turntable and cd's are the source  

Like the idea of the SP9 as a hybrid preamp. Reading the phono section is very good. 
Your thoughts and ideas?  I'm sure there are many preamps that would work well.
Trying to keep the cost of the preamp around $1200 or less.  The Mac MX series are affordable because a 5 year old model in the AV world is a  dinosaur and cost are reasonable.  I have been reading that people are happy with the MX just as a stereo preamp. 
Any advice would be helpful