BAT VK 500?

ayre v1x

My speakers are Martin logan aerius i. I had a bryton 3bst, I sold it after lissening to the bat vk200. I also auditioned the plinius, ar, mccormack, meridan, audiomat, signature and many others. I completely crushed all of the above in every area. And had excellent surenergy with the bat 3i pre. Never had the opportunity to listen to M Lev gear, or pass. I now own a vk200, bass response is excellent and so are mids and highs.
Good luck

I picked up a VK200 on the used market and prefer it to my Rowland Model 3 monos driving my current speakers - Martin Logan SL3s. The Rowlands (which I bought new twelve years ago) have a great mellow, very dimensional sound on stats which is good but the BAT solid state stuff is just AWESOME on electrostats. Anybody with stats really should try the BAT stuff. I haven't listened to the BAT tube amps but the VK 200 is so good in my system I'm considering shopping around for one of their preamps.

BAT makes great tube gear. I think that their solid state is lacking. In the price range that you are looking I would check out the Audio Research 100.2 which is also solid state. It has replaced my Ayre V3 and I haven't looked back since. Gary