Advice Sought on Upgrading my 2 Channel Audio


I barely post anywhere as I do alot of reading here and elsewhere that's been very helpful. I thought I would start my first thread as I need specific help pertaining to my system.

My system is only HT now and consists of a Classe ssp 25 and cd 1.5, Theta Dreadnaught II, Magnum Dynalab md100, and a Rotel dvd player. For HT it's fine for now but for 2 channel the Classe sounds too lean to me and would like to seek advice on what I can add to make the 2 channel audio more enjoyable.

I have a couple of ideas with 1, being to ad a preamp(tube or ss but I have no experience with tubes at all). Also from reading I heard if you use a tube pre with HT bypass, the tube life won't last long. Is this true with all tube pres or just a few? 2, sell the Classe 1.5 and ad a dac and use the Rotel as a transport.

My budget for a pre is around 2K used or new, give or take. If I ad a dac, then I would like to fund it with a sale of the cd player, if possible.

Hopefully I haven't left anything out and appreciate all opinions. Thanks,

James
keano

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Thanks for the replies.

Dtsag, I'm not too good with describing things but the Classe sounds lean and sterile to me so i'm looking for the opposite. Say, dynamic, liquid, full bodied sound.

D_edwards, I replied to you through an email Agon sent me. I'm a newb at this so bear with me, please.

I also should mention that if advising on preamps, I would like it to have balanced outputs.

James