Lightning quick DYNAMIC amp in the under $1000 range

@peter_s Not clear what your point is. What does it mean “different class altogether” absent any additional info?

 @mrdecibel Sorry if that seemed defensive, I riffed off your suggested 3 by Referencing a system built around them.... but omg yes, what a boring world IF we had was one brand of speaker....

i respect your experience and contributions here :-) and I learn stuff from you re the all class A DH-220

i built one of those  kits about every month to help put me they college.....maybe all that solder got to me

or the beer...

I own an STA200 and it is in fact a great little amp if you have the right preamp for it but in my almost 20 years with three different Vandersteen models my favorite amplifier match was Odyssey.  For $995 the Khartago is as good as you are going to get and it's higher input sensitivity makes preamp choice a lot easier.  The Khartago was a great match for several years with a pair of 2CE Sigs at my house and more than held it's own with Treo's. Plus there is a 20 year transferable warranty. 

jackd, I also thought of the STA200 amp for the OP. 

@celander 

For a while I had both the Khartago and the STA-200's big brother, Job 225, with the 2CE Sigs and they both worked great fronted by the W4S STP-SE so if the STA-200 has enough juice it will work well too but I think the Khartago is a better fit. Plus as was pointed out by others the Khartago can be upgraded all the way up to Kismet status using the same case. I've only tryed the STA-200 with the Nola KO's and the Verity Otello's which are more efficient than the Vandies.