Thinking about simplifying to an integrated amp

Around 5 years ago, I had to move my audio system to a smaller room and decided to downsize to an integrated amp.  I have power hungry speakers and needed an integrated with plenty of power to properly drive them.  I heard many positive comments and reviews about Hegel integrated amps, so I first tried the Hegel H390 (I auditioned the Hegel and several others before bring in the Hegel H390).  The H390 was very nice sounding to my hears, but still lacked the extra "oomph" and headroom needed to properly drive my power hungry Revel Salon 2 speakers, so I decided to give the H590 a shot.  The H590 was a significant upgrade over the H390, offering significantly more power, and a significantly higher degree of sound quality.  Over 5 years later, the H590 is still going very strong in my audio system.   I used a separate outboard DAC/streamer with the H390 and my current H590.  I highly recommend Hegel's top of the line H590/H600 integrated amps, as the extra headroom never hurts.  There are many nice integrated amps out there that would fit your needs, especially if you don't require that much power, you just need to take your time and audition as many of them as possible, which is what I had to do in order to find the amp that was right for my needs.  Happy listening                        

I’m a bit on the cheapskate side, so the NAD M10v3 has worked fine for me. Pushes my La Scala’s like a champ. Has the inputs, streams anything, has a decent DAC and a MM phono stage that handles my VPI TT well. And, you can put $7500 into something else. 🤓

Can always try it and give it back if it’s not a fit.

I went the same route recently, and now have a Coda CSiB, which I’m very happy with. It’s V1, which is 150w into 8 ohms, with the first 18w in class A. Very quick and transparent with smooth highs and tight impactful bass. Coda is a little under the radar but worth checking out. The company is run by former Pass associates, and their amps sound somewhat similar and are similarly well built.

We are integrated amplifier specialists  we sel a large number of integrated amps coda, naim, unison research,yamaha,Nad,synthesis,Avm,matrix and a few others 

The coda csib would be perfect for you it outperforms most integrated amps on the market it is the exact same no 8 power amplifier plus a preamp in one case so its powerful provides class A power c and can be rebiased to provide 400 watts. It is basically neutral with a bit of warmth it throws huge  soundstage. And is very quiet.

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I recently changed from tube preamp and class D stereo amp to a integrated and so far I'm happy. 

I ended up getting the Yamaha AS3200, I got it brand new for dealer cost which was a big part of the decision, but it is a beautifully made amp that sounds really great overall from bass to imaging, soundstage, smooth highs, it seems to do it all, and it has beautiful wood side panels and VU meters which really helped pushed me over the edge. 

So far I'm enjoying having fewer boxes, cables, and the meters are serious nostalgia bait. One of the greatest things is the dead silence from this amp, with nothing playing you can crank the volume knob all the way to the max and nothing, not even a tiny hiss, hum, or buzz which on my previous Italian tube preamp would hum a ton if I did that.