AVR v. Preamp

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Originally Posted by Pycroft

I have both an AVR with preouts, and the preamp. I currently have the Parasound powering the front 3 speakers (fronts at 80WPC, Center bridged at 180 I believe). I wasn't sure if that was a better setup than using the preamp instead of the AVR. Basically, which is better?

ive wonderd bout this as well as im bout to move up into an emotiva xpa 3 to power my front soundstage and let my avr power my surrounds but i too wondered if there was any advantage to using a pre with an avr. I was told no just and amp with the avr the pre amp is basically ur avr without an internal amp n this is mainly used to piece together a system w/o an avr like connect you sat box sacd cd tuner game system to the pre then pre to amp amp to speakers but since i have an avr its not necessary n no advantages would to using a pre jus a seperate dedicated amp is all thats necessary any opinions or views on this?