I am starting to look at studying preamps in order to add one to my system and still keep the yamaha for video and multi channel setups since I want to have a theater but keep the 2 channel part of it separated. I want a preamp with theater bypass and a tubed unit is really not where I want to go because unless the tubes shut down during theater bypass I would be wasting tube life on watching tv and movies. I have looked at the adcom gfp 750 since it seems to have a following and is not very expensive. I have also thought about Emotiva's up and coming xsp 1 mainly because their usp-1 only does theater bypass on their crossed over outputs for my mains which I don't want since I rarely use my sub for music. The usp-1 will have much more abilities than the usp and also supposed to be a much better unit if they will ever some out with it!!. I am just wondering what thoughts are out there for ideas one this subject. I know the adcom 750 has a following but I am worried about buying a possibly 10 year old preamp without a warranty but heck I have had a adcom amp for around 17 years or so without one problem with it so I guess I should not worry. But on the flip side the emotiva will have a 5 year warranty. I just want the best sound for my money. I am looking at saying around the 1500 dollar and under market and the cheaper the better obviously but I don't want to have worse sound just to save a few bucks because I know how I am I will kick myself for it later. Ideas will help on this.