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Has anyone Used the McIntosh D150 pre amp and what is the sound like? Is it worth 3000.00  dollars that they are asking for it ? 
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You should be able to connect your players using their digital coax outputs to the D150. D150 has two SPDIF coax inputs so you can connect both players.

Just had a good listen to the D150 on MC152 and C-47 (same DAC but phono and other features) on a bigger Mac amp, forgot to look at model. The salesman switched out the D150 and let me compare it to my own Parasound Halo P5 I brought in. The Halo just came out of the car and the D150 had been playing a good while so that would need to be factored in. Listened to the D150 for a while first then put the Halo in and it sounded substantially worse, thin with a noticeably narrower soundstage in comparison. Then as I settled in after a few musical pieces I was familiar with, it was sounding respectable and acceptable if there was nothing better to compare to. We put the D150 back in after a good while and the improvement was not as dramatic as initial change to the Halo, however, superior dynamics, a wider soundstage, and more revealing in general  is pretty obvious. I am looking forward to acquiring one of these two Mac preamps, hopefully sooner than later. Speakers on the D150 were the new $7,000 Paradigm stand mounts (very nice) and the on C-47 was B&W 805D3 which I own. Is it worth the diff in price $1,000 vs $3,000 in my case? If you like Mac as I do, you have to pay to play. Used market for me. .