In article , Arny
Krueger
wrote:

"max graff" wrote in message
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Hi guys,

My old two channel pre-amp has gone coo-coo. Time to go shopping.

I am looking at Rotel as I am very happy with my existing CD player.
Should I go for a integrated amp or should I go for a pre amp
connected to a power amp?

You forgot the third option - the receiver. An integrated amp is a
receiver without a FM section. A power amp is an integrated amp that
you use with a separate preamp or other controller. Of course you know
all that.

I don't know about other countries, but there is a historic difference here
between the UK and USA.

Until the advent of 'AV' as a serious mass-market here in the UK the
receiver tended to fall out of favour. So stereo receivers here have tended
to be rare (and often used to be called a 'tuner-amp'). Armstrong Audio
were about the last UK stereo hifi maker who specialised in receivers for
hifi enthusiasts, and stopped making them in the early 1980s. I suspect the
reason the receiver fell out of favor was the arrival of many 'tower
systems' and other relatively cheap combinations which flooded the UK
market in the late 1970s and 1980s, tending to give the idea a 'bad name'
for many UK magazines and enthusiasts. Plus, of course, the way the UK
press at the time started to become obsessed with just a few 'magic' brand
names for 'subjective' reasons... :-)

They are much more common now, and may well make sense if you want the
tuner, but IIUC tend to be AV multichannel in many cases rather than
stereo.

Slainte,

Jim

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