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.


emergingsoul

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With loud speakers, it’s much more likely that the choice of power amplification could actually negate the need for a preamp, than vice versa.
 I am in agreement with @tvad.  I would like to point out that it’s easier to get a flat impedance curve with lower impedance speakers, and  that due to that lower impedance those speakers will most likely (speakers like tvad’s Soundlabs excepted) be less sensitive.