Looking for a new powerful amp.

Stevecham I am with you I would not classify Krell as bright and thin either. Pass is a good choice as is Krell but with a 95db speaker I am not sure you need all that power. But of course if you change speakers with a more inefficent design then the power will come in handy.

Chuck

Don't forget to consider Odyssey Extreme Monoblocks. I absolutely love them. Would also try to find a pair of Intuitive Design Summits to try to audition. If you do buy a different brand of speaker, then I would NOT recommend listening to the Summits afterwards. These have an unbelievable combination of high end detail and smoothness like I've heard in no other loudspeaker--ever--at any price. They image like crazy, are balanced, and even have pretty decent bass, with a rolloff somewhere around 40 hertz. Mine are augmented with a Rel Storm 3 sub-bass unit, but the crossover is set somewhere around 28 hertz on the Rel. The combination I have now is just MAGICAL. FYI. I'm not a dealer, just a believer and owner.

I agree with dedwards. Both Krell and ARC have arid, grainy, and lean sonic characters. There are far better choices at all price points in both solid state and tubed iterations.

Odyssey's are the most neutral, and just correct sounding, bass is lean if the recording is, but if the bass is there it will blow you out of the room. So they are kinda a lab reference style amp with musicality unsurpassed in the price range, but don't buy if you do not want to hear the truth, go with a colored amp to offset if necessary.

Arid, as opposed to liquid or wet i.e. undefined, loose and no detail

Grainy, as opposed to smooth i.e. undefined or no detail

Lean sonic character, as opposed to artificially elevated mid bass hump i.e. inaccurate across the frequency band, especially at extended frequencies.

Yeah I agree with that.