The only straight advice I can think is to get a separate phono amp to not limit the choice of possible A/V gear . Quality of that phone stage would be chosen to be on par with the turntable and pickup if this is not the most high end of stuff and seldom used I would cut corners here to save some $
I would then look at speakers that match your current ones a centre that is sonically similar/matched is essential. are these deftech with built in subwoofers ? Once you have speakers then you can somewhat narrow the field of suitable A/V amps to the ones that ares suitable to drive the speakers and has all the input facilities you want . HDMI switching is one thing and I would also scrap the CD player it's going to be reduced to a digital transport anyway as all your source components except the phono which is going trough AD first . A reason to keep the CD in the loop would be if the blue ray is like my Pioneer very very slow . Convenient is to have a lot of inputs and outputs, some cheap out of this and end up with extra external switch boxes for toslink and whatnots . If you assume separate power amps in the future A/V receivers that can separate pre and power section is very good , they are surprisingly good as preamplifiers not to be sneezed at . -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93948 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
