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RE: Do you have one listening room or two?

I was a tad confused by some of your posts, but that's probably on me (confusion is part of aging).

If you were doing "separates" (a preamp AND an amp) you could choose from several combinations (SS pre with tube amp or tube pre with SS amp or both a tubed pre & a tubed amp) as long as your preamp section has the phono stage that you wanted.

But I am not exactly sure what you are asking here:

"By going with a pre amp for the phono it is more flexible to run the TT on different amps if needed?"

If you want to listen to vynyl, you are going to absolutely have to have either a preamp with a phonostage or an integrated (unit with built in preamp AND amp) with a phonostage.

As far as flexibility goes, I'd say that separates offer you more flexibility, as you can upgrade one without the other (but that would have nothing to do with the ability to run a TT). There are probably advantages to both (or so I've read, not having ran anything integrated for almost 30 years). For examples, with separates you will obviously have separate power supplies, which should be cleaner. But with an integrated unit, however, you won't have to worry about the impedance matching between the preamp & the amp.

Cost is going to be a big difference. You should be able to get a quality integrated for much cheaper than you could buy a decent preamp AND a separate amp, not to mention not having to buy any expensive interconnects to hook the preamp to the amp with.



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