Preamplifier: Yes or NO ?


I post this thread because I want to know your opinion about the use of the preamplifier or if no preamplifier is better. A few years ago I tried the old Wadia 6 CD Player with volumen control. Althought it sounded very well without preamplifier I felt the sound lost body.
I red that many brands improved the volumen control in they CD Players so I want to know if you could compare with or without preamplifier.
So if you have CD Player like Wadia, Mark Levinson or Audio Aero, please let me know your opinion.
Thanks.
elduende14
Yes - just take care of source-amp sinergy (Voltage, impendance, etc..) I run my Accuphase CDP directly to my amps, no problems, better transparency, resolution, etc.
I think active stages have advanced far enough to make most forget about passive.
I've thought about a TVC or a resistive passive attenuator as an alternative to my tube pre, and I will probably get around to trying one soon. As related experience, I've tried several active and passive analog output stages inside my modded CDP, including, most recently, two varieties of high-end silver 1:2 step-up transformers and a battery-powered 1:1 SS buffer. The preamp & transformer specs would indicate that the transformer alone should have an easy time driving short cables into the benign 100K input impedance presented by the tube pre. And indeed the passive transformer output alone does sound gloriously natural, smooth & detailed. But nearly all of the transformer's strengths are are retained, and dynamics, linearity, and LF control are significantly enhanced, by adding a very simple SS buffer circuit at the CDP output. So I will probably end up building a TVC like the Bent Audio or the Audio Consulting Silver Rock kit, and trying it both ways with and without a battery-powered buffer circuit. Bottom line, even with adequate gain at the source and good impedance matching, one can probably benefit from adding current drive of an active buffer.
With my system,I dont need Preamp,I have the SonyModwright
DVP9000es,My cdp is much better than when a $2400 preamp
is connected...Definitely I am not missing anything...