What stereo amp sounds better than digital monos?

To Tholt, Sorry, but what are "reco's" If you mean reconnaissance. I spoke to Robert Lee about 2-3 years ago, and he claimed almost any amp works well with AZ's, including SET amp...but,I am not into flea power. However, I was told by the designer and owner of Red Dragon that he often uses AZ's Adagios at CES. He finds the synergy very good. (See my response to JohnnyB52) Your suggestion is well taken.

Sunnyjim,
You might want to check with Adcom the 5802 is a fully balanced Amp. according to Adcom.

Koiman,

The Adcom 5802 owners manual shows the following values for input impedance:
Unbalanced 105K ohms
Balanced 10K ohms

If the amp was truly balanced, the balanced value would be double the unbalanced value.
Since this is not the case, the amp just uses a converter
to transfer the balanced input to single ended after the signal enters the amp.
Other brands do this too, usually in their entry level pieces....

Don't be afraid to audition Coda amps. Great sounding amps. I believe comparable to Levinson, Krell, or Pass for thousands less. Build quality is there and SQ too.

I also own the Red Dragon M 500 amps and I agree that for the $'s they are quite remarkable sounding amps. I have also been using them with banana plugs with no problems. I have not found them to be tipped up in the detail dept although maybe with certain speakers that may be a perception. I'm using Vandersteen 3A Sigs and also an ARC SP16 Tube Preamp. I did not like the amps with a NuForce P8 preamp in comparison. It would be interesting to hear from other owners of these amps to find out which speaker/preamp combos they are using. Good luck with your quest. The upgrade bug is indeed hard to resist.