Best amplifier for klipsch heresy 3 speakers.


I am looking for suggestions on a power amp or integrated for the klipsch heresy 3 speakers.i would prefer a solid state amp over tubes.I need an amplifier on the warmer side,also considering a pro amp like a crown or qsc but have no experience with pro amps.My room is a 12x12 with wood floors.MY Source is a an oppo bdp 83 dvd/cd player.my music taste is mostly rock.Im looking for an amplifier with good power but tame on the highs.
curiousgeorge

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I'd avoid pro amps...I use 'em for PA but they often have noisy fans (QSC) and non standard speaker posts...lots of bang for the buck but not as sweet as good modern hifi amps. The reviews of the new Cambridge integrateds are universally enthusiastic and they build that stuff really well, and the new NAD amps seem like a bargain. There are a lot of amazing integrateds out there these days...a friend has a Vincent that is a tank and sounds great.
Jolida...I loves me my Jolida! The 60 watt remote integrateds are sweet, cheap, and have plenty of juice...I use the 502P power amp and it kicks it up (do people say that?) well and is inexpensive even new.
I don't understand the issue with a wife working out in the same room as a tube amp...but, of course, I can guess: Sweat beads landing on tubes causing them to crack, a large plastic exercise ball melting and popping from hot tube contact, tube glow reminding her of fading love and vanishing youth, she prefers there be no euphonic harmonics taking the edge off of Joe Scarborough's innanities, there are cables running under the Bowflex, she thinks "I have to get in better shape so he spends more time with me and not this stupid hifi hobby", splashed chlorine from the lap pool is making the amp smell like a small town YMCA locker room, extra heat from the tubes are causing the emergency food rations stored in the basement to rot...or something...
I don't think I'm a comedian, just a seeker of truth and justice for all, even among the humorless who lurk among us. The inability of an amp to coexist with an extreme worker of out is still pretty funny to me. Tough room...I'll be here all week...now how about that airline food?