The Marsh is excellent, of that theres no mistake. Its the proverbial wolf in sheeps clothing or 'giant killer' if you will. Again LDB, the amp is the A400 not the A200. If the guy is trying to sell you an A200 for $800, you can do better. If seen the A400 go for $675.00Also important to consider that the preamp is only linestage and you'll need a phonostage whcih'll run another 300-400 for anything decent- thats the only drawback. By the way, if you look closely at the knobs on the preamp, you'll notice that they're the same as the ones used by audio research.

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