Carver M500t amp and Adcom pre-amp, good idea?

[kexodusc]

Adcom is really known more for its amps than its pre-amps but the pre-amp are actually quite good in my opinion...I think, for the money you are looking at spending, you'd be further ahead with a different power amp. If you're looking on ebay, Adcom makes some great ones, so do Rotel, and Parasound if you can find them. For a better selection from more careful people (IMO), try audiogon.com as well.

Why are you fixed on 100 watts? Nothing wrong with that but just curious how you determined that's what you need.
Some of the best amps out there are only 60, 40, or even 30 watts/channel, and will rock pretty hard.

[Rycher]

There certainly are a lot of other amps out there. I own a TFM-35 and TFM 55 and a TFM1.5, they have all been very nice and clean sounding amplifiers - all very powerful and a very good bang for the buck. I've never had anything go wrong with these amps other than the occassional light going out on the meters (easily fixed by Rat Shack). IMHO, I think you'd be happy with the Carver amp. As for the Adcom pre-amp, sorry. I've never owned one.