Picking a speakers

Ok. What’s your budget range for a preamp and amp, and would you buy new or used? Not at all familiar with your media player, but if it’s a low-budget player that’s something you’d really want to look at upgrading too because it’s also a critical component for 2-channel performance. Decent streamers can be had in the $200 - $400 range, but things get better as you get to around the $1000 price range (of course) and some have serviceable DACs that can hold you over until you can upgrade there too. Innuos, EverSolo, and Cambridge come to mind in that range, and of course there’s the Bluesound Node at a slightly lower price point.

It's similar to Oppo 203 quality. Sadly I just sold my Oppo here on Audiogon. When I'm ready to buy something, it will be used. I have 3 B&W CDM series speakers for sale now. When I sell it, then I can think of buying something.

I agree with the Rotel amps & preamp choices since I'm quite familiar with their units. Although I have several different amp/preamp setups including vacuum tubes I still enjoy the clean sound of the Rotel 1590 Mk II series.

To answer your asking question about speakers .....I like the Sonus Faber Sonetto 3's for about $4k . I actually liked the 3's more than the Sonetto 5"s when I listened to them at the dealer some years ago. The 3's have a very nice balance of sound with midrange detail and no sharp high end since I'm sensitive to listener fatigue.

Hi again guys. I see some Classe CAV-150 amp for sale. It is 150w/ 6ch or 300w/ 3ch bridged. Or I could just bi amp?  Will this amp be a good match for 805s? And what budget pre amp should I be using if I go this route? Thanks