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Peachtree Nova 150 as a pre only?

Has anyone here used their Nova 150 or 300 as a pre amp with any separate power amps?
I’ve had my Nova 150 for a couple years and enjoy it as an all in one solution with TT to phono input, streamer and cd running digital to Nova.  Neat and clean hook up with minimal wiring.  Also have a Wyred4Sound STI-500 that rotates in from time to time but that forces the addition of stand alone dac and phono pre plus rewiring, which is not a big deal to me.  Recently found some alternate speaker pairs for that system / room and thinking about powering them with different amp typology.  Tube amp and class A amp on my purchase radar.   
I am curious about the Nova 150/300 pre amp performance with external amplifiers if anyone here has done so and what were your results?
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dougsat
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Yep - I have the Nova 150.
I have been using it as a preamp feeding a Crown XLS 1502 driving a pair of Magnepan LRS. The Nova 150 works just fine for me as preamp. I particularly like the Loop function on the Nova. So, for that I have an IFI Tube buffer that seems to add just the right touch to the overall sound. 
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