which amp should i get another marsh, aragon, eAR

Re "I believe the pre-amp should be completely passive."

It has been my experience, passive preamps are a poor choice when partnered with PWM amps, such as the eAR. And that is a crying same, because I believe the great PWM amps are the most natural amps ever devised.

I owned the eAR MKII. It was great. Now I own the H2O Signature. It's huge power supply significantly lift's it's performance over the former.

I would never use MIT with a PWM amp either. For one thing, MIT cables sooth the highs. You don't want to do that to the sweet highs of PWM amps. Another thing is, it is imperative to have double, or triple shielded power cords on all components including the PWM amp.

Try 2 A200s. They actually sound a bit better than the 400.

Audition them all if you can. My reference amplifer the H2O is available for audition from www.iceh2oaudio.

Carlton

Sounds to me like you either have a room mode situation(common) or may prefer a different speaker. Unless those qualities you're talking about are infintesimally off for your taste, you need possibly room treatment or different speakers. Try speaker placement variations first. Cheers

still does not answer my question. Is the Aragon mono blocks better than two Marsh 400s or two Evo 200.2, or maybe a eAR amp?