As long as your integrated has a direct input to the power amp section, you
can take your time hunting down your new gear, and add what you like
whenever you find it. The advantage being, of course, that you can spread out
the purchases: phono stage, line preamp, cables. The last buy would be the
power amp, and you would sell the integrated to help pay for that.
There's no particular reason to sell the integrated now, unless you happen
just to have found a crazy-good deal on everything you want.
If the integrated does not have that input to the power amp, then you will
have to consider starting your upgrades with a new phono stage and cable.
(You will be able to plug the phono stage output into an input on the
integrated.) Later, you would get both your separates--amp, preamp and
interconnect cable--at the same time, and sell your integrated amp.
can take your time hunting down your new gear, and add what you like
whenever you find it. The advantage being, of course, that you can spread out
the purchases: phono stage, line preamp, cables. The last buy would be the
power amp, and you would sell the integrated to help pay for that.
There's no particular reason to sell the integrated now, unless you happen
just to have found a crazy-good deal on everything you want.
If the integrated does not have that input to the power amp, then you will
have to consider starting your upgrades with a new phono stage and cable.
(You will be able to plug the phono stage output into an input on the
integrated.) Later, you would get both your separates--amp, preamp and
interconnect cable--at the same time, and sell your integrated amp.