Krell or Mark Levinson amp.?

I feel that it's the ML stuff that has the rep for erring on the side of bright at times. And Krell has the rep for having the most tubelike (i.e. "correct") midrange (except for the new "c" series). Levinson amps have been measured to have a higher damping factor (usually), so the bass can be more controlled, and sometimes winds up sounding not "round" enough. IT ALL CAN BE TUNED WITH CABLES THOUGH (unbelievably so), so it's not terribly dependant on the choice of speakers. I've heard a VTL amp that sounded more like transistors than my Krell KAV-250a (mine with my speakers almost sounded like a CJ tube amp in comparison, yet it played effortlessly much louder). He had very bright cabling, and had electrostatic speakers that were also adjusted very bright (he must've had some hearing loss). Very analytical and unnatural sound. Anyway...besides, ML is owned by Harman, might as well be owned by Microsoft, Standard oil, or OPEC. How much more money could they possibly need? I am all in favor of Revel taking some market share from Wilson, however.

Yeah Gary, you're right, none of us are having any fun at all. I guess we'll never learn, oh enlightened one. We're just wasting our lives away, because we don't happen to use the amp that you use. It surely must be the very best in the world for the price, so I guess I must be a fool for not doing exactly as you say, and trying to copy your system to the last detail. How could you be wrong, after all?

If that's all you're saying, then we have no problem. So you were baiting me, then? How manipulative! Anyhoo, my experience is that it's the ML amps whose bass is analytical and "overtight". A Krell FPB's bass is rounded, and correct. Look, of course there are other amp alternatives, but this thread was specifically regarding ML or Krell. And as I've said before, I can make my Krell sound similar to a tubed Conrad Johnson just by changing cabling, so we are reading too much into this perhaps. The idea is to pick an amp, and then try to get the most out of it. Just throwing something together will get you nowhere. And expecting the amp to have the same character regardless of other system aspects, is a fool's errand. I mean, I've heard the same degree of differences going from mine, to similar amps, just by changing the AC cord. You have to "guess" at what amp you think you might like, then buy it, and then spend a long time getting it to really sing at that highest performance level, where any compromises that you decide it is making, are well distributed, and preferable to you. That's what most anybody does with any amp, even a $200,000 one.