Pass Labs amp choice for CLS - What would you do?

Dchazen, take a look at my Gon reviews of the 350.5, XA-100's and XA-30.5's to get the details why I would select the 350.5 over the X-600's. I did not care for the X-series amps sonicly, but the X-.5 series are great sounding amps.

Srwooten, I'm glad that you love your Edge 10.1 in your system. I had an Edge NL-10 and enjoyed it very much, however when the new X-.5 series came out, it was much more musical then the NL-10 in my system. As stated above the X-series amps to me were somewhat cold and steely sounding to me, but when Nelson Pass came out with the X-.5 series and then the XA and XA.5 series he nailed it and I believe that he surpassed the Edge gear in its sonic performance.

Srwooten, I hope my comments regarding my experience with the Pass amps compared to the Edge was not taken by you as a put down or negative statement about you or your experience regarding the X-600's vs. 10.1, if so I'm sorry if it came across that way.

The Edge amps and the Pass Labs amps are some of the finest sounding SS power amps built today. It really comes down to personnal taste and system synergy.

Dchazen, if it's in your budget, in my opinion, you should go for the XA-100.5's. If you read my review on the XA-60.5's for the details regarding their sonic beauty, you will see that they are on a higher musical level then the X-.5 amps and yet now have the current/watts to drive virtually any speaker. I would also suggest you give a call to Mark at Reno Hi-Fi with any questions you might have and he's great to do business with. You could set up a 30 day home audition, if you don't keep the amps you pay for shipping back and a very small restocking fee.