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.
128x128johnmc67
Musical Fidelity there amps are musical and very well controled. The sound has become warmer the last years. There is some depth, but not in the league of Pass Labs. In the past I gave shows for the distributer of MF. Compared to Naim the focus of instruments is a lot sharper. Naim is more focussed on sound and drive. The Naim amps do not give a sharp individual focus like instruments and also voices sound like in real. The other point is ther is almost no depth. At shows I Always asked the people of naim why it is so 2D. To be honnest many people who even work for distributers there knowledge is limited. Often they do not know a lot about music. What can I say!
Just having my morning coffee and signed on to get my daily dose of Bo...

Another excerpt from our resident audio god...
"At shows I Always asked the people of naim why it is so 2D. To be honnest many people who even work for distributers there knowledge is limited. Often they do not know a lot about music. What can I say!"

Perhaps when you get ask this question to a manufacturer Bo, you do not get an answer because they can't stop laughing.

Keep them coming Bo because I can't stop laughing either.
Paraneer, IMO the brand that Bo is trashing the most is Wilson. Apparently, they are not good for the typical Dutch house and Wilson Audio is not informing the people about this. =))

Regarding your comment

Keep them coming Bo because I can't stop laughing either.

I for one, I am not sure whether I want to start laughing or crying.
Julian hirsch

Mglazer wrote,

"It was Julian Hirsch (RIP), a highly respected reviewer for decades. He did not say that amps (or any other compnents) that measure the same, sound the same. What he did say was that if the measurements of two amps were very good and close to each other, both will sound very good and then it is a matter of personal taste which one prefers. In other words, he established the objective, so the buyer could apply his/her subjective taste. Most reviewers today only focus on the subjective."

Yes, he was highly respected by those that believe you can assess how an amp will sound by measuring some parameter or another. Those who do not believe in such things found out a long time ago that parameters that Julian Hirsch held dear, you know, things likeTHD and frequency response and slew rate, had little or no bearing on the subjective sonics of the amp. In fact, what we actually found out was that amps with extremely low THD sound very much worse than amps with relatively high THD. And amps with very high slew rates did not sound as good as amps with relatively low slew rates.

When you go to buy a TV you walk into the store and pick the one you can afford with the best picture, right? Why shouldn't you pick amplifiers the same way? Follow?
Yes, but with TV's, the salespeople usually adjust the TV's they want to sell as best they can, and "detune" the other ones.