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Replacing mid-fi Yamaha A300 have marantz ND8006 network CD player, thinking Yamaha, Marantz, Advance Paris,CAN $2500 ish

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Replacing mid-fi Yamaha A300 I have Marantz ND8006 network CD player, thinking Yamaha, Marantz, Advance Paris,CAN $2500 ish '

Let's be honest- mid-fi.

Thinking

1 Marnantz 50

OR

2 Advance Paris A8 APEX Hybrid Integrated Amplifier​

or

3 Yamaha A-S801 Integrated Amplifier

My goals:
1., Be honest - not spending car money.
2 - I rock out to the Rolling Stones and AC ,DC and I listen to compressed MP3 files that are on a hard drive connected to the Marantz CD streamer. And other digital-type sources of music.
3- In the summer I plan to use OK Cambridge Audio 2-way outdoor speakers for playing pool party type music (mid fi seems ok for this)
4- I like Beethoven's Choral Fantasy and other classical orchestral music etc

This WILL NOT be part of a TV surround project.

It will be for playing speakers downstairs (channel A) (30-year-old Celestion 3-ways) upstairs (channel B - 30-year-old Celestion 2-ways) and outside through a' to be better thought out' selector switch through B - Cambridge Audio outdoor speakers.

I do have a Tuner - Sony of some good repute - black - classic? Not the 'toy' Sony.,

I do have a Dual turntable

I do - and I understand they are making a comeback - have an HK tape deck -old.

I do not want a streaming amp because I got the streaming CD player.

Thought? Ideas?
I imagine that it is truly between the Marantz and the Yamaha, and then it becomes a question of money.

I live in Toronto,- likley to go to Bay Bloor Radio and get it done but I want to be smart about it.
 
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