Which Integrated got you off the merry go round?


Calling on all those suffering from audiophilia nervosa who finally put an end to the non-sense buy-sell quaterly of pre, amps, integrated with an integrated (price does not matter). Which one was the ONE for you?
kanuk
Valve Audio Predator
Hybrid design giving a taste of tubes. 200 watts in 8 ohm doubling into 4 so will always have enough power no matter what speakers you have. All for 2k (B stock) at Music Direct
"PrimaLuna Prologue 2.With upgraded tubes,some feet and a better PC-no need to look back"

I agree.....
The Graaf GM50B was the best sounding integrated of all I've owned over the past ten years:
-Ensemble Fuoco hybrid
-Jadis DA50
-Gamut DI150
-Primare
-Manley Stingray
-Creek 5350SE

It may have had to do with system synergy. It was matched with REL Strata III sub, ProAc D25 speakers, and Meridian G08 CD player.
mbl 7008. It looks good and sounds good. It is designed to be able to drive the 82dB/w/m, 4 ohm mbl 121 (which I don't happen to own). So I'm guessing that in my small NYC apartment, even though it is "only" 120 Watts/channel (and is rated down to a 2 ohm load--380 Watts) it will potentially work with just about any speaker, even if I move to a bigger place. One requirement I had, since I also listen to a lot of tv and movies late at night, is that it have a headphone jack. I prefer a headphone jack to a separate headphone amp to save space, but more importantly, to be able to control the volume via remote control. And I assume the headphone section of the mbl is no slouch (I say assume because I have not auditioned headphone amps).

I very much enjoyed reading the comments on the other integrateds. I am especially intrigued by the Pass Labs, but as the theme of this thread goes, I'm not in the market!