I didn't know that it was possible to find a used insight at that price, but I'm also not sure its the best use of the space I have -- I've been allocated real estate for a turntable and two full-sized components (one of which has to be an AVR), so I thought that a nice stereo amp + a smaller photo stage would be the way to go. Which leads to me to my next question(s)...
This room is going to double as a movie room and the family wants an avr (I’ve tried to sell them on a 2-channel setup with a phantom center and they are not fans). My understanding has always been that the front channel amps in an AVR aren't going to compare what a dedicated stereo amp can provide, so I’ve been looking at ways to combine the functionality of an AVR with a nice 2 channel amp. If I were to get a pretty basic AVR that had pre-outs for the two front channels, could I connect my turntable preamp and external streamer to the AVR, and then connect the AVR to a power amp (say, e.g., an NAD 298)? Or should I be connecting the AVR to an integrated amp with home theater bypass (say, e.g., an NAD 388) and then also connect the external streamer and turntable preamp to the integrated? I expect that my family would prefer having everything connected to the AVR for simplicity sake, but do I sacrifice analog signal quality by passing the turntable preamp signal through the AVR before it gets to the power amp? Also, would connecting everything through the AVR allow the 2 channel music to benefit from the AVR’s room correction software, or is that a terrible idea?
Apologies if these questions are best served up in a different thread, this is my first equipment upgrade in about a decade so I'm pretty fired up about it.