Kap I also don't know your budget. But I'm thinking you are a value guy like I am. Have you looked at the Tonewinner stuff? They also manufacture a lot of the Emotiva gear to EMOs specs. Its very Chinese, right down to some of the text on the back panel. The AT-300 pre/pro is $1400. You wont find anything with these capabilities for this price anywhere else. Same basic architecture as the Emotiva MC-1. But it gives you an assignable 5.1 Analog input and balanced outputs. The latter is the way to go if you are thinking of active speakers at some point. The bad news is there is no true pure analog mode. Any input you plug into it is digitized to a maximum sample rate of 48kHz. And it looks like they have pretty much sorted out the inevitable firmware updates on it. Firmware updates seem to be just a fact of life with these things. It is not network connected like a lot of the Marantz/Denon/Yammy stuff is, so the connectivity is limited.
The power amps look to be very high value per watt. Those biga$$ meters on the front panels may appeal to you. There are threads at AVS if you're interested.
ToneWinner & Summit Hi-Fi
The power amps look to be very high value per watt. Those biga$$ meters on the front panels may appeal to you. There are threads at AVS if you're interested.
ToneWinner & Summit Hi-Fi