I'm on my second SF line 1--a gold faced and at an incredible deal a few years back. Around 600 for it. Lots of good connection options as the Line 1 or the 2 or 3. 2 balanced inputs. 1 balanced op. 2 rca's pre out, Most pre's only have 1 pair of pre out. tape connections as well as plenty of rca inputs. I have 3 amps running off of mine.. Used separately and with choice of hi sensi speakers for the 2a3 SET that is a part of the system . A MCcormack DNA 0.5 is one and the other is a Pass xa30,5. The remote is my favorite of any I have used.. the aluminum hockey puck. There is a good tweak for the dac chips for the volume control---replacing the Crystal with Burr Brown--I have which ones written down somewhere.. 2 Crystal chips are soldered to the board which means need to change over to socket type and there is no one around here that I would want working on it so havnt done the conversion. Some units already have the sockets so its a matter of buying the Burr Browns which are only about 12 bucks apiece.