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Need suggestions for a $1500 used system for my daughter.......

She just purchased her first house and she wants good sounding music playing soon! Yes, it seems I influenced her. 100% Tidal streaming. I will make all cabling for her. Small floor-standers or book shelf speakers.   Can be separates or an all in one. Needs to have a nice smooth and warmish sound.  She dislikes top end sizzle or bite. Full bodied sound is needed! Can be tubes, but only small signal tubes .... no power tubes.  Ok Agoners please offer me up some killer options! Most likely used with my small budget, but who knows?! Thanks in advance. 
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auxinput
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The peach tree would likely be the cheapest solution.  The “Peachtree Audio i NOVA - Integrated Tube Amplifier with DAC” is the one you want. It’s discontinued, but there’s one one ebay for $595.  Then you can roll 6922 variant tubes for whatever sound you want.

Another idea are the Vincent Audio Integrated amps.  They are very nice and very smooth and very warm, but higher priced at 800-1000.  And you still need a DAC with a streamer.
auxinput
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The Nola Boxer would likely be a very good option because of the silk dome tweeter.  For a warm sound, I would avoid any speaker that has a metal/titanium/aluminum tweeter.  Also avoid speakers with metal mid woofers.  This means that I would not recommend the Monitor Audio Bronze and the KEF speakers mentioned above.  Metal drivers for the tweeter and midrange will have breakup distortion that will create a bright tizzy edge.
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