I have not purchased a turntable, phono pre, or a preamp yet. If I could find a nice pre w/phono built in that would be great. I plan to purchase a pre next month so I'll probably scout ag then. I have been looking at the wright sound pre http://www.wright-sound.com/products and also the cary slp-88.
I will look at the parasound.
Thanks,
Iain