I would like to thank everyone for their advice. I got a lot of great feedback. I think that I will probably go with a tube amp, mostly because I have always had ss amps and it is time to try tubes. Here is a list of some of the amps that I have tried. An old Bedini amp, Classe M1000 mono blocks and an Adcom 545. I had all of these amps in house, loans from friends. I was mosst impressed with the Bedini amp, I forgot the model # but it had 250 watts per channel. The 2nd best are the Musical Design amps, they are very smooth sounding but they have that moss fet mist which robs the amps of detail. They can also use a bit more punch, still they are fantstic amps for the price. Next I would rate the Classe M1000 mono blocks. Lots of power but I simply was not that impressed with them in my system. I have heard the Classe's on Shahenian diapasons and they were fantastic, just goes to show how important system matching is. Last place were the Adcom amps, not terrible once agian good value, but not very refined on the top end. I know that there are far better ss amps out there, but I feel it is time to try tubes. When I was shoping for my first set of martin logans (sequel 2's which I still have) I heard them with CJ MV52's running as mono blocks, they sounded fantastic. It was a short demo but I was way impressed.
By the way the rest of my system is, Theta data 2 transport, Theta pro basic 2, sota saphire, premiere mmt, clear audio arum beta and audible illulsions mod 3a, cables are audioquest lapus and kimber pbj and speaker cables are Tara labs space and time, bi wired, a must with ML's
Thanks again to all who replied!
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Ron
