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Need your pre-amp advice

I have an opportunity to purchase a pre pro and get rid of my Yamaha rxv2095 receiver. I am looking at an Anthem avm20 or a B&k 50s2 the problem is there are no dealers around here to listen to the above. What is your valuable opinion. My other gear consists of a B&K 7250 amp with JPS fx ic's,Stealth m7 pc,JPS biwire speaker cables B&W cdm9,cnt,snt velodyne spl1200,Rotel 1070 cd w/ Stealth m7 pc and cws ic,along with mits ws65908,mits svhs,Aiwa tapedeck,Jvc dvd, Yamaha pf1000 tt w ortofon om20, and a panamax 5300. I would like to keep it around $2000.00 as I will also need to get a phono preamp(what kind?).I listen to music 70% and movies 30%. Please give me any and all your plus and minus on both or other pre-pro's. thanks.
baxel
bignerd100
515 posts
 
NAD has a pre-pro that is easy to use/set-up and sounds very good. It is a big bang for the buck and would give you a good mid-fi platform to build from if you wanted to start replacing other components. Sounds better than the B&K.
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flg2001
543 posts
 
Consider Rotel or a passive preamp (Monolithic, Axiom, etc..)

Fernando
baxel OP
9 posts
 
Thanks for the input, I have listened to Nad and did not make that one of my choices. Rotel was another that I thought about, but I want to get more opinions on the B&K and the Anthem. I will give the passive preamp consideration. Thanks for the replies and keep giving me your valuable expertise.
jdcrox
119 posts
 
The Anthem is very highly regarded, and is very similar to the AVM-30, which is considerably more expensive.
Check out AVS forums, a lot of threads on this subject.
John
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