Choice of Amps

What's your spending limit? New or used? Tube or solid state?

I recently was using Atma-Sphere M-60 II.2's to drive N.E.A.R. 50Me II's with two pairs of ZERO autoformers used in lieu of speaker cables in a special configuration. The results were sensational. ZERO information is available at www.zeroimpedance.com. Read the testimonials there.

I only have approx. $1k and I am serching for used stuff.

The NEAR's are great,huh!You have to have the right amps for them to shine though.They tell you everything.How old are your NEAR M50's?I have meet Bill Kietyka who is 40mi. from me.Really an astonishing designer.
Freakin Stereophile really put his Co. under the P^&*(!Thanks Dick O.!
I will be getting a used set of M50se's soon I hope!I have a set of Modified M15's at the moment.

Anyways I am looking at those amps listed and really am leaning towards the Monarchy or Electrocompaniet.
Need the Impedence and sensitity level for the Electro. as I am using a passive.

Any help would be appreciated!

Abex, Bill Kieltyka at one time recommended Aragon amps to me for use with the 50Me II's. I have heard really good things about Electrocompaniet products. I owned a Monarchy DAC at one time and judging from the experience would expect their amps to be excellent, along with the comparisons to Pass amps.

I purchased the N.E.A.R.'s about 3 years ago. I recently gave them to my son and his wife as a wedding gift knowing my son liked them so much. I also think they're great.

I modified mine with some Marigo dots. I was especially pleased with the Marigo Dynamic Tuning bands on the woofer basket arms. These tweaks along with the double ZERO configuration were phenomenal. They were excellent by themselves too.

I have never heard of these.

The best sound I ever heard using them was with Mark Levinson amps and ARC Pre-Amps.That was before the Mods that Bill did after the appauling review DO gave them in Stereophile.

They have the same Tweeter design as the Watt Series speaker's and someone said they had heard a Electocompaniet Amp driving them at the Bangkok AES and they were awesome.I am thinking of trying that combo.

Aragon is Krell's affordable series I think and I have a Modified B&K which is really a poormans Krell IMO.I would love to have Atma-Sphere's,but they are really out of my price range. A used Electrocompaniet is all I can afford unless I wait for the price of Monarchy's to come down which I have only heard good things about.

Anyway's thanks for the advice!