Using a Receiver as a Pre-Amp

[JimPullan]

With the big guns, like Lexicon, Mark Levinson, McIntosh, Krell, and all the other high end Pre-Amp/Amp manufacturers holding off on putting the Advanced Audio Codec decoders in their equipment, would investing into a Receiver, such as the Pioneer Elite, the Sony ES, the Integra, or the Denon that has 'all' the audio codec's in them, using one of them as a pre-amp processor and amplifying using my outboard amps make sense or should I wait? I already have 5 - 250W channel mono-block amplifiers, powering my Revel F-52's, M-22's, C-52. My Paradigm servo-15 has its own amp. I presently have a B&K Reference 50 Pre-Amp that 'is not' upgradeable for the advanced audio codec's.

Jim