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Sonic Frontiers Line 1 with Solid State Power Amp
I used a Bryston 3BST amp with a Sonic Frontiers SFL-2 pre with nice results. 
SF Line 2 and SS power amp
I am running an SFL-2 pre with a Bryston 3BST amp and B&W Nautalus 805 speakers. My listening room is small, I converted the master bedroom of my townhouse, so I don't need gobs of power. I find the combination works well for me.Have fun! 
Preamp/Tuner to be used as a tuner only?
"Similar to what has been said, run from the Tape Out. Normally this should send the full signal to the new pre-amplifier and bypass the GTP 450's volume control."This is exactly how I hooked my NAD 1600 to my Sonic Frontiers SFL-2. The volume kno... 
Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use?
Rega jupiter 
How do I keep my cats off my amplifier?
Leave a small saucer of anti-freeze out for them. 
Oracle Turntable Service
I would look for used Mkiv or V as well before upgrading. The newer versions have improvements 'o' plenty:Suspension towers and adjustmentBearingPowersupplyCounterweightArm BoardRubber MatI bought a MkII from a friend that had a few upgrades that ... 
Sonic Frontiers pre-amps
I beleive the SFL-2 have a phase inversion switch 
Sonic Frontiers SFP-1 Upgrades
I understand the SFP-1 upgrade replaces about 80 parts on the PCB, or was it 80% of the total parts, (good memory eh) and new tubes. I'm not sure if that does the power supply or not, hopefully it does.Regardles, it sounds like almost a total re-b... 
Looking for DAC suggestions
Thanks for all the responses. It sounds like perhapse my initial idea of using my NAD as a transport is not the best idea. So would it be better to go the dac/transport route or new cd player route? Sorry for all the questions, I'm really more of ...