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RE: Do affordable multichannel preamps exist any more?

Pretty much agree with you, this is a well-traveled road by me. I would suggest the Marantz AV7702 Mk2 pre-pro instead though. It is about as good as anything Marantz has made in this area recently, better than their much pricier product (8801) from only a couple years ago. Barely within the *full* budget though, it's not that hard to find a cheap mch amp to "make do" until you scrape some more $$ together.

I will not pretend that this comes close to even a "modest" (by AA standards...) analog *stereo* preamp though. Getting something in that league, to match a decent stereo one but in mch, is extremely expensive. I have not found one in fact under $20k that I would say is "equal" (IMO etc. etc,), and I do not begrudge the price after I thought about it for a while, it kind of makes sense.


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