590axii in the house

congrats - first experiences with real high end gear can be quite a thrill

Congrats on your purchase. I would also check out the Spendor D7.

@bgm11, you chose wisely. As a fellow owner, I can certainly relate to your excitement. One thing that I highly recommend is to swap the stock power cord with something nicer. I've tried Cerious Technologies Graphene and Audio Envy power cords and both made a huge difference in sound. Try it and you'll be surprised by how much more this amp can deliver.

Another thing to note is that, despite its class A rating up to 30 watts, the amp is fairly neutral, maybe a smidge on the warm side but barely so. This is good because speaker pairing gets a bit easier. I don't know your budget but Sonus Fabers tend to pair well. Look at their Olympica line, either the previous models or the new Novas. I also heard the amp with Harbeth SHL5+, and the sound was amazing.

The Luxman 590 ax2 is very good and nice looking with the meters ,
for overall purity ,accuracy of the musical signal I found the latest Coda integrated a fantastic Best Buy at $6500 retail and. Will easily meet or beat any 
integrated in the $10k and under range ,just look under the hood ,and with the V1
option,3  to choose from. 18 first watts into pure class A,  then 150-300 wpc
Built like a tank a 3k transformer , and over 80 k in capacitance ,a totally seperate Amplifier ,and pure class A preamp all under the hood and a solid 10 year warranty, 5 year transferrable.

@audioman58 in your opinion, how big is the performance gap between the latest version of Coda CSIB and the previous one?