Good Solid State Integrated Amp.

[Feanor]

I use a Cary CD player, CD 308 to be exact, two Jas Audio ORSA speakers with ribbon tweeters and an SVS subwoofer (SB 12 Plus). My integrated amplifer is an NAD C370. While I believe my system sounds great, I often think of that little extra 'edge' we classical music lovers like. We tend to want 'musicality' or 'sweetness' and in large orchestra presentations, we like separation of instruments - a large sound stage both wide and deep etc. .... So this 'thread' a bait to try and catch someone who has discovered a solid state integrated amplifier that does a better job than my NAD C370....so that they might tell me about it. We all know that there are so many variables in good stereo that this will be difficult....but perhaps not impossilbe.
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Bingo

I believe very strongly that there are better integrateds out there than the C370. I owned a C270 power amp and was surprised how mediocre it sounded after I heard better amps. I did own a Bel Canto eVo2i, (no longer manufactured but available used for about $1600); it was better in everyway, especially transparency, but wasn't forgiving of harsh-sounding recordings.

Based on reputation, I would like to check out the Ayre AX-7e for a really refined sound. (But note that it is only 60 wt/ch.) ...
http://www.ayre.com/products_detail.cfm?productid=12