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"Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers

As a Canadian I am naturally a huge fan of Bryston products but not long ago I switched things up for a NAD C355BEE integrated amp and instantly realized what I had been missing in terms of warmth, sweetness and overall pleasant sound.

I'm interested in moving up from there into some Class A or A/B amps but I don't know of any other warm sounding Solid State amps other than Pass Labs which are out of my price range at the moment.

Tubes are obviously "where it's at" as they would say but the maintenance factor is somewhat of a deterrent for me. Should I just go for an M series NAD amp or is there another intermediate product between that and Pass Labs??
pontifex
arsh
367 posts
 
I used to have an A308 integrated. It was an excellent amp. I hope you enjoy it.

Arsh
pontifex OP
31 posts
 
It will still be yet another week or so but I'm very excited to finally introduce myself to the Musical Fidelity brand. If I enjoy their sound signature I could see myself moving up to the M6 series. I want to simplify my rig a bit more and get a CD player with a good DAC rather than use a separate one. So the M6 CD player is also on my radar.
zd542
5,339 posts
 
"05-03-15: Pontifex
It will still be yet another week or so but I'm very excited to finally introduce myself to the Musical Fidelity brand. If I enjoy their sound signature I could see myself moving up to the M6 series. I want to simplify my rig a bit more and get a CD player with a good DAC rather than use a separate one. So the M6 CD player is also on my radar."

You need to be careful. The piece you bought was from when MF made they're stuff in the UK. The M6 is some of the newer gear made in Taiwan. It doesn't sound anything like what you just bought. Completely different.
pontifex OP
31 posts
 
Yes, that's right. An excellent point. From what I understand they still manufacture their higher models in the UK still. Anyway that's very distant on my "radar" I shouldn't really entertain that notion until I have had a good amount of time to listen to the A308 and the GX300's.
csontos
1,311 posts
 
That must be the A-308 I noticed on CAM just before you announced you found one? Don't you just love it when a plan comes together!
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