Hoopster I believe the Hagerman is a tube pre. It appears to be a nice unit as well. I'd suggest getting an integrated tube amp to replace your Rotel receiver and power amp. Something along the lines of a Primaluna Prologue. This would leave plenty of money for a cartridge upgrade(Dynavector, Sumkiko, etc.) or a mint pair of Klipsch Cornwall speakers which will be more efficient than your Paradigms. You would be losing 160 watts per channel.
Where to spend some money?
Would welcome anyone's thoughts on how to spend some money to step up the quality of my vinyl playback. This is by no means a mega buck system, but here is what I have; Rega P-2 with RB-250 and Exact cartridge. I Have installed the Incognito rewire set, machined sub-platter, and an Iron Audio thick acrylic platter. I clean my vinyl with a Nitty Gritty and a carbon brush. The preamp is a Hagerman Cornet and the interconnects are PBJ's. This is fed into a Rotel RB1080 200wpc amp and out to Paradigm Monitor 11 towers. I use the preamp section of a Rotel RX1065 receiver to control processing functions. It does sound pretty good in my opinion, but I know there is more to be had
Where would around $1500.00 to $2000.00 best be spent?
Thanks for your time.
Where would around $1500.00 to $2000.00 best be spent?
Thanks for your time.