AMP or Preamp

Sorry about the trolling comment but people do come on here asking crazy stuff just to get us going then you never hear from them again.

Yours was like that because as you can tell from others comments it makes absolutely no sense the way you've got such high end speakers and such budget everything else- and not even good budget than that, you just can't do worse than a receiver.

Buying a pre-amp you then need amps. And interconnects. And power cords. Done right you can wind up with something quite good. For two or three times as much as an integrated that would sound just as good. If not better.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

You're using a receiver with Wilsons? Yamaha and Rotel? Seriously??? And, jumping to monoblocks??

Trolling, or one helluva crazy story here for sure. Odds-on favorite: trolling.

Okay anyway assuming serious, ditch the receiver. Get a good integrated. If you really do have Wilsons, they deserve and will reward a lot better front end than some inboard phono-stage on a card. Get a good integrated, Herron VTPH2A phono stage, whatever VPI table you like, mount the best Koetsu you can afford, connect it all with the best Synergistic Research wire you can afford, sit back and enjoy.