Another New Member Looking for Advice (preamp and speaker setup)


I started using the search function to try to get a general sense of what would work and what wouldn't work.  There are so many opinions that it was hard to track a good outcome, so I'm attempting a thread to see if I could get help for my specific situation. 

*Please forgive me that I have a hard time verbalizing what I enjoy about what sounds good to me (i.e. clinical or warmer)*

History / Goal:
I grew up building sound quality competition cars and used to sing and play guitar in a band myself.  Music has always been an intricate part of my life and a passion.  

Recently, I started to listen to some higher end systems throughout Dallas-Fort Worth and absolutely loved what I heard.  Some of the systems went into the 100k range which was insane (and quite frankly, far out of my budget here) and great to experience.  Doing this, unfortunately, started to create a bug of wanting to upgrade my reallllly old lower end system.

Budget:
Ideally ~$10k

Current Lowly Setup:
Rotel RC-1070
Rotel RB-1070
Polk Audio A7s
12" 750W Subwoofer (can't for the life of me remember the name while typing this)

Current Idea(s):
Rotel 1572 Preamplifier (only reason being it appears it would achieve all the things I wanted and match)
Keep my Rotel RB-1070 for now
Bowers & Wilkins 804D3 - (~$6,500 used from here / heard B&W many times and enjoyed them each time)
OR go way over budget and get a pair of Wilson Audio Sabrinas - $16k (which I instantly fell in love with)

My main input is going to be Tidal and digital music for now, eventually a phono. 

Am I thinking about this correctly, or would there be something that I should consider besides my current thoughts?  I'm open to any and all ideas.   Thanks for your time helping me!  
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Go to the show! There are plenty of audio shows around the country. Rocky Mountain is right around the corner. I’m looking forward to CAF next month. Spend the whole weekend listening to different amps.
I'm in agreement with mboldda1 in terms of touching base with Skip.  He is just one of many good dealers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.  Get out and look around and meet them since you live in an area that still has many B&M shops.  Instead of looking for advice on Audiogon reach out to those dealers and the local audio clubs and listen first.  There are plenty of people in your area that can point you in the right direction.
Go to RMAF. It'll be worth the road trip. You'll likely discover there are far more musically satisfying speakers out there than anything B&W produces.

B&Ws are designed as a HT/music compromise, as most big-name towers are. 
This is great!  I really appreciate everyone's response here.  I'm definitely going to take a step back and rethink things given the above.  

@caphill - I really appreciate the detailed post and there is a lot to  unpack here.  I'm definitely not stuck on Rotel, but was more going for bandaid fix to my current system.  Probably not the long term wisest idea.

This upcoming weekend I was planning to review some Golden Ears and ProAcs, as I've never heard them.  There seems to be about 10,000 brands that I've never heard of.  To be open, I didn't know there were such things as audio clubs :| 
- I guess growing up in a very small town in Idaho comes with some drawbacks.  haha


Rotel and B&W share the same distributor, and dealers have been known to, errr, enthusiastically promote their synergy.  Your proposed plan of action will have good results; you can probably do at least a little better, depending on how much time/effort you want to put into it.  For instance, not that far from the Rotels in price point would be the Belles Aria preamp + sterero amp or + mono amps.  Pushing up the budget to Sabrina level brings a whole slew of other speakers into play.