Best amp under $6k, in your opinion?

Where can you find a Berning zH 270?

CK, do you like the NuForce better than comparably priced tube amps? or do you basically prefer owning SS?

Perrew, do you have a preference for SS or Tubes? If tubes, and if your speaker really have that smooth an impedance curve, you might want to consider an Atma-Sphere MA-1 (used), another excellent tube choice would be a used CAT JL2, which does care much what your impedance curve is, but flatter and higher is better for all amps - and a Music Reference RM200 or RM9 which would be well below your price point but competitive in terms of sound quality with much more expensive gear. The Quicksilver V4s would also be a great choice and drive your speakers with ease. On the SS side, and given that you proabably need 100 watts with your speakers I would look at either used Ayre or Pass XA amps, though the Pass may be above your price point to get enought power. My 2 cents.

Ck, I agree that tube amps certainly do not control the bass like an SS (maybe a CAT JL2)but no matter how much I try to enjoy SS, it never sounds real to me compared with tubes. I recently had the Pass XA30.5 and it does sound great on its own terms and is surely one of the best SS amps available. I then switch to Music Reference or Atma-sphere tube amp and well I no longer have the Pass - tubes just sound better in almost every way, at least with my easy to drive Merlins. So I wonder if you conclude the Nuforce are better than tube amps under 10k, and your familiar with them, or you are basically oriented to SS and tight bass control. If the Nuforce competed with tubes I would certainly try it, but it would be a first.

I think so to. I've tried, but SS just doesn't do it for me; although I realize that some speakers just can't sound there best with tubes and demand the use of SS, with the exception of a few high powered, high current tubes amps - which isn't necessarily the best approach to appreciating what tubes can do.

Good options Tom. The Ayre especially has always interested in light of comments made by Ayre users.