Best preamp is no preamp: always true?

Sogood51 got it right. No, its not always true. Sometimes its true.

Sogood51, sarcasm aside, these passively integrated units do have some advantages. They have less connectors and may have much less cable to drive. Due to size, weight and heat issues, in practice most of these passive integrated units will be limited in power output. High powered passive integrateds will probably be too cumbersome for most to use conviently. The irony is if one were to use remote control and place these passive integrateds where traditional power amps usually go, one would probably need many longer interconnects from source components to facitlitate their use. Of course multi-amping becomes more problematic as well.

Dave, that's what I thought. As usuall it carried a good thought as well.