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What Mods for a pre/pro to become a good preamp?

Many components are plugged into the pre/pro unit that use the Digital RCA. I would like to retain the bass management and speaker distances etc. of the pre/pro, yet get the fidelity of a good preamp when using my PVR, Satellite, and especially DVD.

I understand that a high quality power supply or addition of a second high quality power supply helps reduce jitter. What other items should be important to improve the sound quality? Please be as descriptive as possible.

I am using all available analog pass through. I am hoping to improve the outcome for components using Digital RCA and AES-EBU. I am using a Lexicon MC-12B, version 3 with the microphones.

I have a service manual. What else would I need?
yada

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agaffer
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You need a pre amp, the Lexicon is a pretty good AV processor but, even the best AV computers seldom sound as good as even some of the very least expensive preamps.
Find a pre amp that you like that has a AV bypass and use your Lexicon for movies and multi channel music and the pre amp for everything else. You wont need the bass management for two channel as, by definition, you aren't using the sub you have plugged into your LFE channel of your Lexicon.
agaffer
256 posts
 
"Agaffer, perhaps you are correct as a general rule of thumb. But then there are always excepts to those rules. I own a Primare P30 pre/pro"

I don't get your point. According to the Primare Audio website, the P30 is a pre amp, not a AV processor. I'm sure it is a good pre amp and were Yada to use it in conjunction with his Lexicon I am sure that it would be a big improvement in sound quality.
However, I was thinking about improving the music side of his listening. Rereading his post I see that isn't what he is looking for. He wants to mod his AV processor to improve on it .
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