Quote Originally Posted by Asmo
I've noticed that also, I am a Diana Krall fan as well. I used to own a old Marantz amp and at first liked what the NAD did, but realize that it is a form of trickery in the sound.

Anyways, I am considering buy a new amp + speakers soon, and I was considering upgrading from my 320 BEE to the 352 or 372 to power Paradigm Studio 40 v3s. Anyone here think this would be a good combo? Would the 352 be enough or should I go for the 372.

Thanks
Can you move to a higher end amplifier? I would try tubes as well - someone on here has Jolida running Dynaudio so if they can drive Danes they can drive Paradigm. The best result I got with the Studio 100V2 was with the Sugden. In fact people always get on me about my Paradigm comments and yet I bought my amplifier on a listening session with the Studio100V2

The MF had a more expansive big sound the Sugden was more intimate and did smaller scale music much better(especially vocals).

The Audio Refinment Complete might be a good match on the SS front. It is made by YBA and is basically the YBA integre integrated but Audio Refinment is made in the far east rather than France - but the price is less than half for the "Complete." This amp is $999.00us.

I'd also be tempted to try some of the ASL tube amps as well as Jolida. I heard the older ASL AQ1003DT and it drove the B&W CDM 1NT with ease so the the Paradigms should be even easier - The new one is $200.00 more but it comes with remote and a nice removable cage, subwoofer outputs - and it looks really nice to boot - UHF reviewed the original version if you're interested I can find the review issue number and you can download it for cheap. The thing weighs a hefty 45 lbs and tube amps do need space as they get very hot - but if it's between the Nad 370 and this I'm leaning tubes. http://www.divertech.com/aq1003dt.html