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Amp and Tuner suggestions?
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Yup, that is as good a place to start as any. You will need to pick up a phono stage to be able to partner a turntable with this integrated amp. They aren't expensive and a dandy NAD PP-2 phono stage at around 120 bucks will do the trick quite well.

You should be able to snag both on the used market for around $300 combined.

The integrated has plenty of power to drive most speakers and enough inputs to hook-up all the gear you are talking about.

If you are using generic rca interconnects and speaker cable, try to budget another $100 for a used Kimber PBJ or Kimber Timbre interconnect and some used Audioquest Type 4 speaker cable. Both work really well with entry level gear like the NAD, Rotel, Paradigm and psb stuff.

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What you want is the NAD320BEE; this unit is outstanding at $1000 and casts $400; it is far better than any other integrated amp under $2000 that I know of. See Editor's Choice in The Absolute Sound and recommended components in Stereophile. It will make the junk you have sound broken.

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