CD player straight into amps?

Hello,

I am running a Wadia 850 directly to a BAT VK-60. I am very pleased with both. Others are of the opinion that one must have a pre. At one time I had a CJ Pre. I could not tell much difference between the with and the w/o pre, but I preferred the w/o. To quote Robert Hartley, "the sound never comes out better than it goes in".

Hope this helps.

Have you gone back and checked your Answers Categories as there was this topic brought up and you answered and others gave their opinion also :

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1167829145&openusid&zzTboooe&4&5#Tboooe

riley, actually that thread is mainly about cdps with digital inputs. Yes there is some brief mention of volume control but since it was not the main topic of the thread the posts were not very detailed in this regard. Thanks for your post.

Actually, there are several threads on this very topic:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/srch_fr.pl

Sometimes threads are difficult to find. However, to summarize. . . some prefer a preamp and others prefer the CDP directly into the amp. It may depend on the quality of the volume control, etc. I am running an EAR Acute CDP directly into an EAR 859.