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Best preamp is no preamp: always true?

There seems to be a school of thought that between two well-designed (read no major flaws) CDP and AMP, the best PREAMP is NO PREAMP at all (let's assume that the AMP has a sort of minimalist volume control).

Is this a solid and robust statement? What would be situations where this is not true (still no major design flaws)?
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dlanselm
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I tried a Placette RVC, with .5 meter Audioquest Jaguar cables to my Mcintosh MC 2000 amp.
It lacked dynamics. The music lacked life. My Supratek Grange, is 1,000 times better.

I have also done the expermient with hooking my cd player directly up to the amp. A pre amp to me just seems to pull together a more musical presentation.
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