Amp recomendations for WATT/puppy v6.

Typo,, I meant MC402 SS (Solid State) amp 

Hello, I am right now listening to my WP6’s paired with my 
McIntosh MC402 SVS amp and McIntosh C2500 tube pre.  To me (and my other pro audio friends who have heard it) sounds just wonderful.  Are there “better” amps? Yes.  Are there more expensive and more troublesome? Absolutely.  I had all Audio Research before and it was very good too. However I prefer the McIntosh for two reasons , the WP6 are 4ohm or less and therefore really wake up when you have a lot of power and headroom. Even if you don’t listen at full volume levels. Hence the 402 at 400 watts per ch.  
Secondly I found the Audio Research to sound really good on well recorded material. But on older less hi if recordings. It can really accuratly reproduce the shortcoming in the recording.  Whereas the McIntosh tends to make more music more listenable more of the time.  As others have said depends on your taste and style of music you enjoy.  The WP are amazing speakers and you will be able to hear the difference in electronics driving them. 
Enjoy

Well, John and CZ pretty much said what I was going to say after I found out where you were at!!

I'd stay away from most SS amps for the reasons CZ said, unless you can find a used Class A SS unit like a Levinson 20., 20.5, or 20.6 ($5k used +/-), Parasound, etc., but most other qualifiers, new or used will be over your budget COMPARED TO the sound you'd enjoy from an excellent tube amp (even at new prices) like a Conrad Johnson, McIntosh, BAT, and VTL. Audio Research (specific models) are OK too, but overall tend to be a bit lean/dry with Wilsons. If you like lean and ultra-sharp focus sound, the Wilsons deliver it, but you may as well get an SS amp (you didn't say what you're listening to now which would have been nice to know.)

In any case, you should A-B a couple of good tube, and a couple of good SS amps just to hear the basic difference, and then really get into finding the brand whose sound you like best. No further recommendations from these forums will be better than your own first-hand experience. And in most cases, all it's cost you is some time.

The Wilsons are great speakers though. And if I were a newbie, I'd get something of quality, but used, and cheap for right now (like a Bryston or Parasound or Roger Sanders new SS amp (www.sandersoundsystems.com -- made by hand by him and sold direct for now) and then wait 'til next fall and go to the Rocky Mountain Music Fest in Denver. And listen to a whole lot of stuff there -- at this point in your experience, that's the best way to build knowledge and confidence.

I would use conrad johnson to try and get some musicality out of those speakers. I heard them through Mark Levinson electronis as well as rouge and krell and on all occasions they were dry and sterile to my ears.

Hi I owned WP 6's for about 5 years. Now have WP 8's.

I guess you have to decide first if you want tubes or solid state or maybe tube pre and solid state amp. Your Wilsons are VERY revealing of anything. I am assuming you set them up perfectly according to the manual? If not, I'd pay a Wilson deal to set them up. It makes a big difference.

Do you want to by new or used? I had recent issue with one of my amps, barrowed a BAT VK300x integrated amp. It was killer. Tube pre, solid state amp.

Lots of combo's from ARC, BAT, VTL, Ayre. They all sound a little different. Certainly the NuForce you've heard is a consideration. This is hard to decide, it's best to listen some, but I know we can't always to that.

Also, do a search here on Watt Puppies. Several have asked before.

Im open for suggestions! My current system is hafler DH-220 & matching pre-amp and yamaha NS-1000 speakers so im sure you can appreciate my inexperiance in audiophilia!

. . . . . and so you want to consider only digital amplifiers?

Well the Nuforce package is approx $8000.00 Australian so somewhere in that range.
Cheers

What's your (new/used?) budget range?