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The Onkyo's work surprisingly well as pre's and their phono section is well regarded. I was using an 8500 MKII as a pre with excellent results.
I just looked at my 4500 MKII and it does not have jumpers, but went to hifiengine and looked at the owners manual for the 4500 and it does indeed have jumpers. If you have a high power amp than it's definitely worth checking out.
Thanks for all the replies on the Onkyo as a preamp (didn't mean to hijack think it addresses subject of post).
The manual says you can do it but again, I was reluctant since the jumpers seemed reluctant to be removed and proceeding with caution (checking first).
I don't have a power amp yet, but since I acquired the JBL L112s I've been looking at a few and searching for something in the 200-300W RMS range. I'm slowly moving up and already really like the TX-4500 through the L112s (although hybrid running mids and tweets and woofer from L-100s until I get both the 128Hs back from recone/surround. That alone should improve things. I also need to find a turntable to match up with what I have, but that's another rabbit hole.
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