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Jeff Rowland spares no expense and compromises nothing. There are no reviews. There is no advertising budget. His philosophy is that his products are appropriate for those, and those only, who can appreciate them. If you think there is another company on earth that delivers more for your amplifier dollar, you are kidding yourself.
Carl Eber, if you are still at large, should realize that you are very much like a Krell amplifier. Cold, steely, strident, obtrusive, pretentious and in need of mods right out of the box.

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Jeff Rowland i have 8T love it great sound wonderful service the BEST!!

I've never heard a Levinson, Krell, or Rowland that sounds even half as good as the McCormack DNA-500

I have hardly heard all the contenders, and no solid state amp in my own system for quite a while, but, I've heard a few in friends' system and at shows, etc. I generally find Ayre electronics to be consistently nice sounding in a wide range of systems, so I would give them a nod. I've heard BEL amps sound good in a couple of systems too.

A friend has a First Watt amp (Nelson Pass design) in a high efficiency system that sounds very good in that system. I believe the model he has is an F2 amp. It is, however, an amp that is not as universally usable as other solid state amps -- it is somewhat low in power and is better suited to speakers which have a high impedance.

The better solid state amps that I've heard at shows are not American in origin. In particular, I thought that the Swiss Soulution amps sound good, as well as another Swiss amp, the Dartzeel amp. It is unfortunate that both are quite expensive. The German Burmester gear also sounds pretty good to me.