Thanks Doctor and Jacques, I'm in mid-Michigan here in the states. Snowing at present. ;-) So, Jacques, you are saying that a preamp is required for the MMC? I checked the Amazon link, $179 blows my budget. (Times are tough, eh?) At the risk of embarrasing myself, the receiver I am looking at is a Sherwood RX-5502 which will set me back about $140

I have a B&O RX2 that we bought over 20 years ago along with a "low-end" NAD receiver. A trusted friend in an audiophile store sold us this pair, and it performed very well for our needs. We really don't understand most of the audiophile terminology, as will probably be evident by this post. The NAD died awhile back and I inherited