Pre-amp outs

Audiophanatik:

I thought about that, but im looking for something to fit an extremly tight budget (i.e. fast food job). The center and surrounds arent terribly important to me right now, so im just looking for a way to get more out of my dahlquist's than my cheapo sony 80w reciever can give them. My idea was to find a slightly less cheapo reciever with pre-outs so i could run the mains off a better power amp, probably in the range of 200wpc.

Audiophanatik:

Yea, i probably will have gone through lots of equipment by the time im 40, though maybe not so much when im living in a dorm room or when im a starving grad student ;)

Im tossing around several ideas for powering the dahlquists, and right now i think the best deal might be to get a seperate pre-amp/amp system and switch the speakers back and forth between that for 2 channel stuff and the reciever for multi-channel. Ive been looking into the audiosource amps (amp two goes for $250 on amazon) and the general opinion in the forums here seems to be that they are a good, dependable, cost effective power amp. I would probably just get one to start with at 80wpc stereo, then get another later and monobridge them for 200wpc. Once i found a pre-amp i would just find a way to run it and the surround reciever together, either with a switch, or by manually changing the wires. I looked at the audiosource pre-amps too, but im not sure about those quite yet. Everyone keeps recommending the adcoms, so i think ill check those out. All this is just dreaming for now, though, its gonna be a little while before i have some disposable income for all this.

By the way, lets just consolidate this discussion weve been having on two threads to just this one ;)