Building an all analog system around Magnepan .7 for 4K and under


Dear Friends, 
My wife and I are professional musicians, and we are saving up for a system to listen to mainly classical and jazz on vinyl. I'm a jazz drummer, and she is a classical double bassist. The more realistic our system is to our real instruments, the happier we are. We will be using this in a medium/smallish 12' x 11' room. 

We will not need a dac, just speakers, amp, turntable. We prefer an integrated amp with a phono preamp, to keep the set up simple as possible but we can consider buying an external phono preamp,

I've read recommendations for for Rogue Sphinx and Pioneer Plx-1000 to go with this system, but I was wondering if there are any other suggestions for our needs. We are also open to set ups that we can build on in the future, Like buying a Nad C 375 BEE and bridging it with a C 275BEE couple of years down the road, or buying a subwoofer later. 

Thanks again for your input, 
Emre

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setting up the table in another room should sound better as it will greatly reduce acoustic feedback to the table, arm and cartridge

not to rain on your integrated parade too much, but it will also be best to put  a separate pre-pre amp for the cartridge in that room too

the reason is you generally want to make the longest cable runs the one least likely to interference & signal degradation - that means short cables from cartridge to pre-amp, and from power amp to speakers

the ultimate would be an all digital feed directly to the base of the drivers with D to A conversion done there -- for an all analog system you want to emulate that (all other things being equal)

I am not aware of anything made this way but a quality pre-amp with a remote control head would be ideal - you'd want not just an IR sensor for the remote but also the readouts on the remote head and then the entire pre-amp would go in the closest or other room with the turntable
Unless you already have the Maggie .7’s, for a room the size of yours I would reconsider getting them. They need to be a minimum of 3’ from the wall behind them, 5’ being much better. A 12’ x 11’ room is really too small for Maggies, unfortunately---I love them too!
if you find the .7 too big for your room, I highly recommend the 3 piece Mini-Maggie system...I used it in a room your size and sounded great...about the same price as the .7
I second the mini maggie system, but with a dynamic sub.. As much power as you can throw at them is what I would recommend. I have both the older 1.5qr's and the mmgs. The bigger maggies have more bass but that didn't wake up until I gave it a kilowatt per channel.