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Old 08-03-2012, 12:37 AM
jeffkrag jeffkrag is offline
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Prepress, I've been on and off considering a standalone preamp (as opposed to going for an upscale prepro), and there are a lot of great options out there in your price range, especially "swiss knife" types like the Mac C48/50. To that end, I'd heartily suggest the $5k Classe CP-800, which has gotten spectacular reviews. It's an excellent preamp, but it also has a great DAC, supposedly incredible asynch USB to DAC implementation for PC-sourced audio, and has sub out, crossover/bass mgmt, EQ, tone controls, etc. Google the reviews.

Jeff
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