What Integrated Amp do You use

jjss49- ok, what are you using now to compare with the NAD M33, your system page is chock full of system components, none of which you can be using at the same time, so which is better?

@anotherbob

not sure what specifically your question ’which is better?’ is referring to...

but when i had the m33, iirc, the chain was

wtl amadeus --> dyna xx2 --> ayre p5xe --> INTEGRATED A v B v C ---> three speakers

1. proac d30rs
2. spatial m3 sapphire
3. harbeth shl5+ (briefly)

compared m33 (no dirac, straight int amp mode) against hegel h390, devialet (with sam on the harbeths), primare i30, sony ta 1es

also used digital streaming front end - blue node 2i dig out to denafrips pontus or audio mirror tubador

amazing what the ole TO-3 case Motorola can do in an ancient NAD 3020 a…..

++++ for the Aesthetix Mimas, i have dialed in 3 systems lately with that integrated, one w DAC, one phono, and another sans cards…all great sound….

i use the rogue sphinx v3. i tested out a couple others and it was the one i preferred with my speakers. i dig its power, its simplicity, and i think it looks cool. my only regret with it is i wish i bought the black one instead. also have a NAD bee in the upstairs system and same deal - simple, not a lot of bells and whistles, very affordable, and does exactly what i need it to

jjss49- so let me get this right, you’re saying you used separate DACs from what came on the integrateds?  The correct test would be speaker wires directly from the integrateds to the speakers without anything else in the chain.  Oh, but wait, those integrateds didn’t have built in DACS?  Well sure if you want to spend much more money you could get marginally better results, I should have stipulated a one box solution, my bad.  Good luck getting better for $5k.