Budget preamp shopping!

[Mr Peabody]

In case you don't see my thread, the Emotiva stereo preamp is on sale $349.00.

[Freewillisdead112]

In case you don't see my thread, the Emotiva stereo preamp is on sale $349.00.

Well darn! If the sale last's over a month that would work out real well! I could squeeze out The $800 ish for the cdp and the pre over a couple months each. So if the sale is still going on I will for sure grab the pre first.

I have never had anything besides dvd players as cdp's before and honestly have no idea what to expect. When I went to look at the B&W 686 and 685's the guy had a TOTL cary cdp running balanced to a TOTL Krell and I honesly never in my live heard something that fantastic! But I know for a long time I could never afford anything, anything that nice sounding. I would put $500 on it if I took the 686's home and ran them on anything in my price range they would not make me happy.

What do you think I am going to gain doing this cdp upgrade. I can here a sonic better on 320kbs mp3's and flac's from my computer then a quality cd out of my dvd player. So I am guessing my dvd player just suck's really bad, as running a pc on a horrible $10 rca cable and no dac it would'nt be that great. Who knows!