The more I talk to people and read the more I think this is what I'll end up doing. I visited a couple of places today and was eyeing a NAD receiver which I can use with the Bryston. It's the T747. Thoughts????
Why bother buying anything at all until you have more than two speakers?? A new receiver with all the bells and whistles will do almost nothing for you IMO until you add other speakers and/or sub.
When that day comes, I'd look elsewhere rather than NAD. BTW, I own a NAD amp, and used to have a NAD pre/pro. They make robust amps, but it's their upstream electronics that I worry about. I'd look at Denon if you can afford it. With Denon, Onkyo, NAD, and Marantz, I like the Audyssey suite. Denon seems to have the best implementation, however, their manuals are also impossible. Marantz might have had the very worst implementation, depending on how you looked at it, at least last year. Onkyo will make the most affordable dedicated pre/pro of the above.
Otherwise, without any desire for the Audyssey suite, I'd also look at Yamaha for their reputation of having a very transparent preamp section.
