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A New Integrated Amp

Hello. I'm soliciting opinions/experience with integrated amps. I wonder about hybrid integrated amps also (ie., Advance Paris A12). I am not all that impressed with Arcam, Marantz, Yamaha, but I've heard Luxmans (wow), Parasound (a bit sterile) and Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III (impressive in a demo environment).  I have not chosen speakers as of yet but I'm leaning towards DynAudio Evoke, Sonus Faber Sonetto,  and PMC.

I listen to primarily artier rock (although Metallica, Soundgarden, The Who and Zeppelin hits the spot from time to time), electronica, trip hop, new wave and punk from the late 70s and early 80s, spacey prog, and P-Funk; we also like to hear the musica de Latin America.

Budget for an amp ought to be in the $3K-$4K range. Room size is 15 x 20 x 9.

Thanks in advance

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kennyc
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Congratulations. Wishing you the best on your speaker hunt.

When demoing speakers, it may help if you bring your own demo music.  Not sure if CDs still readily available to demo speakers but I used a variety of CDs to compare speakers: familiar music, voices, acoustic instruments, piano, horn….

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kclone
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For the type of music you like the Evoke 50s should work very well. 

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jay73
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Hello,

I can only comment on what I have but I will say a Vincent Integrated with Martin Login Motion or Motion XT series would be a nice combo and I think the kind of music that you listen to would sound nice on them.

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