Improvements from av preamp to 2 channel preamp?

Twc, how do you like your hram mod'ed 3910?

To answer your question, you may be missing nothing. But of course that depends entirely on the true sonic quality of the pre/pro v. the preamp.

For example, I have up for auction right now a Primare P30 5.1 pre/pro that has true analog processing in by-pass mode. In that ad I show how the P30 has compared to preamps in the $2000 to $8500 range that I've owned or demo'ed in my home in the last 4 years. In short, the performance of the Primare P30 more than held its own in every case but one and then it was a close second to my $8500 preamp.

But throw in the superior egonomics and original retail price of the P30 ($4000) and it was cleary the winner every time.

My only reason for selling the P30 is that I no longer have need for any preamp with my new APL 3910 cdp arriving any day now.

-IMO

Tvad, I'm still waiting for it to arrive. Hopefully any day now.

Last August, a friend brought his May '05 edition over to have a listen in my system and left it for a week.

Initially I was unimpressed. But after a little warm-up it became quite impressive. But again that was the May edition. I'm anticipating some very nice surprises with the new dacs, etc..