Best Amp for Timbre, Depth and Spatial Resolution?

Using the ears that are attached to my head, I've heard 4 ohm speakers (Thiel, Proac, etc.) that sound absolutely wonderful with various tube or SS amps regardless of what's contained in Letters From Steve. I realize the sound music makes may not be that important, but that's what I hear.

My system plays in "3D" without using anyting Bo1972 uses, so I must be VERY lucky. Bo has made it clear that he is all about making the world a better place through sharing his 15 years experience in selling something or other, his listening to music someplace, and his grasp of component "speed." He's a giver, if only based on his capacity for redundancy and lack of brevity, which will continue to cause me to grind my teeth as well as challenge me to come up with creative responses...wouldn't it be great if he turned out to be a parody? Seriously...I'm glad I'm not Dutch!

I like the Dutch actually, and will call out Bo on his innacurate nonesense (to NOT do so is simply wimpy) until I get tired of it. Paul...really..."semitonically?" (huh?)..."walls of neighboring rooms?"...you are utterly wrong. Non identical walls help cancel standing waves. Placing speakers in unmatched acoustic boundaries does not necessarily remove the soundstage image originally created by the mixer's careful use of panning faders, it merely alters the balance of it (not necessarily a good thing, but that's what ACTUALLY happens). I like to listen to an accurate stereo image (as close to what I feel the engineer was shooting for), and don't need to use corners (note: some serious audio freaks LIKE corners...a lot!), but please don't try to pass this stuff by this crowd as some here actually know what's what. I think this discussion is going very well!

I understand room acoustics plenty and often. But thanks anyway.

If an amp plays in the forrest does it have a sound?

NVP...your third point makes absolutely no sense at all. Is this discussion really about imagining differences? You can easily test an amp for output balance, and you can test if speakers are matched, and an amp alone has tonal characteristics for days...I think sleep deprivation has set in among the posters.

The key point in that last post is "best picture." Who decides what is the best picture? YOU DO...and tastes differ. Julian Hirsch pretty much always said the same things so he was sort of boring compared to modern "objectivist" reviewers who aren't necessarily more accurate, but have the florid and long winded descriptions we all know and are sometimes entertained by. Also, room correction gizmos merely hand over parts of your rig to paramaters decided on by somebody else, applies those paramaters to everything you listen to regardless of what might be on the recording, thus taking you out of the driver's seat, so to speak. Do you want a robot adjusting your video screen for you? How about salting your food? Picking out your wine? Man up (or Woman up) and join the fight against evil Room Correction Devices (RCDs) or all esthetic choice will be marginalized!