So you have a great hi end stereo preamp, but

Ok..

Enjoy yourself, in the mean time.  Do some research,  save your money and away you go.

It's easy enough, ay.. Best of both worlds. Good by to the old, hello to the new..

Regards

After reading his last post I think you should have said, "Okay, enjoy yourselves."

Why can't the OP use a HT processor that has analog pass through so the analog signal bypasses it's DAC, straight to the amps?

Why can’t the OP use a HT processor that has analog pass through so the analog signal bypasses it’s DAC, straight to the amps?

Oh, he can. For sure. Probably does. So what? Its still ruining the sound merely having the thing in the same room. People probably think I’m kidding, or exaggerating. I am not. I tried all this stuff, and with much better processors than any avr! HT is a wasteland. Guaranteed to bring down any system, any price, even just being in the room and turned on. Not even necessary to connect it to anything. Its that bad.

The great writer Harlan Ellison, speaking of Joan Collins, said, "Her mind is a vast barren plain, across which winds play, endlessly." That’s HT.