Nice thread 😎 since Humboldt is at its core a cost-no-object Watt, there‘s two truths here. Indeed it‘s a kind of endgame for the integrated? question. As it should be, at the price.
Watt, on the other hand, is indeed 90% as good, which IS sufficient even for highly discerning audiophiles in real life in m o s t situations
Until you come to the point, where you‘re going all out. Then it‘s Humby. Or the new MACH / SCHRÖDINGER separates, which are 95% STERN / HEISENBERG.
All of these by the way can now be outfitted with Voodoo Labs Witchcraft output/internal cabling. If you‘ve been to Munich in 2024 and their shared room (VL being run by ex Audionet officers still affiliated), you know what that means.