Best Amp for Timbre, Depth and Spatial Resolution?


I have an Ayre CD player, BADA Alpha DAC, deHavilland Mercury pre-amp, CJ MF-2500A amp and N802 - am looking to upgrade amp.
Would like to hear views on Best Amp for Timbre, Depth and Spatial Resolution.
Not married to tube or SS..
Always wonder about Stereophile recommended components such as Aesthetix Atlas, Parasound JC-1, CJ LP-125 and the likes. I would pay about $5k on Agon so there are some limitations.
Thanks.
johnmc67
Per Bo once more...

"It is just an opinion. The shows with the latest B&W are Always 2-dimensional."

See guys, this is why I find his posts useless. Regarding B&W once again, first he states it is his opinion. This is OK as we all have them. Bo should have stopped there. But then in caps he states B&W are "ALWAYS" 2 dimensional. Now Bo steers into the realm of the factual and starts using absolutes. And what does he base his emphatic conclusion on? His opinion and nothing more.

Sorry guys but I can't defend this dude. He is simply so full of himself, even when he attempts to apologize he still comes off as the final authority. But for the record, I don't want Bo censored either. I will continue to read his posts if for anything else, sheer amusement. I have read the ramblings of a lot of big egos on the internet, in all types of forums of different interests, but Bo is making a strong case for the biggest Internet Penis award.
Wolf wrote, "I think this discussion is going very well." Yes and keep it up.
Finally after 50 years I'm able to understand what I didn't understand and what I may not have understood without Bo.

Albert Porter, Doug Deacon, and Almarg notwithstanding everything audio begins and ends with Bo.

We are all very lucky to be in the presence of such brilliance.

And he's Dutch to boot. Long live Bo and tulips.
Posting in forums is "the art of conversation." You have to contribute your own ideas without nailing the topic closed. It stimulates the flow. As we all know this hobby is a quest, not a destination and we are here to trade notes on that quest - not establish a concrete answer to "the best set up."
Paul & everyone else, please go on exploring the topic of room correction / timbre.

From what I have found, digital correction is simply amazing at healing a smeared image. In my case it is extreme as I have a digital processor in my car. It is the JBL-MS8. Anyhow, I have my left tweeter and mid approximately 1-2 feet away and the right tweeter/mid is 4 feet away. Hooible conditions for imaging and impossible without digital correction. After running acoustic calibration which takes in information through a binaural microphone (L&R ears), I have a locked in center image. The sound appears to come from right in front of me and the speakers "disappear" as people like to say.

However, all this processing does something to the sound rendering it slightly mechanical. It sounds great but it will never fool me into thinking that an actual saxophone is playing.