Sound quality impact - preamp vs power amp?


So how best to deploy available funds.  Better to spend on a high end preamp or outstanding power amp?  This assumes you already have high end stuff elsewhere in system.


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Showing 3 responses by jaulbrich

Given budgets are not unlimited, I would split the difference and get a good pre-amp/ amp pair and gleen the benefits of better in both components.  Getting the right match of the two can be better than one great component and one marginal component.  IMHO.
I agree wih the JCP guy, let's sell all our expenses, great sounding stuff, and buy crap that sounds horrible and leave our petty problems behind😉
Sometimes I wonder if when audiophiles physically gather if they speak to each other the way they do on these posts?  There are many different flavors of audiophiles: the self exclaimed expert, the I have to have the best audiophile, the reasonable approach audiophile, the newbie,  the tubest, the if you have Class D...you are only mid-fi audiophile, the pure dick-head audiophile, the I am an engineer and testing matters more than listening audiophile, the rich guy audiophile who says if you were only willing to mortgage your house to buy those speakers you you would be happier audiophile and the ever present old stuff and vinyl is the only way audiophile:-).  Ok, so be it, but lets not speak down our noses to each other.  I have had many different systems.  Some were "mid-fi" and some "hi-fi."  I have enjoyed them all in their own time.  Let's leave it at that...