Best Integrated Amp.

Sugden Masterclass Integrated.

The Class A system puts the sound between warm and brite.
Detail without fatigue.
Quiet background with explosive dynamics.

Accuphase E530 has similar qualities with more features.

Not sure of your price range. Many nice options mentioned here.

I have a Musical Fidelity A 300 solid state integrated (150W X 2) which is very well reviewed in it's stock form and can be had used here for 850-900$. They were $1700 new I think.

I recently had it modded by Tube Research Labs. The fee is $550.

The sound is now at a totally different level. Very smooth, very deep and large soundstage, great bass, and dynamics and detail. The slight edginess that was present before is gone. The noise floor is lowered immensely.
Very happy with it. It has a usable phono stage if you need that.

Good luck in your search.

For a warm, musical integrated you're going to have a hard time doing better than the Jolida 302b. I have preferred this little guy to expensive McIntosh separates.

And for a $900 list price ($600-700 used) you just can't go wrong.

Michael

Classe CAP-151

I don't run an integrated amp, but I have heard a few reasonably priced models that are worth looking into. I saw a $1800 integrated from Rogue at CES that sounded terrific and met pretty high standards for construction and finish. I believe it utilized El34 tubes.

A tube integrated from Consonance, playing at the nearby T.H.E. Show also sounded fantastic and it too was pretty cheap.

I am also quite familiar with the Jolida 302b. A friend of mine is a dealer, but I think he has given up on the Jolida line because of reliability problems. He says that the current model uses output transformers that seem to be failing at a pretty high rate, while models produced before 2001 seem to hold up longer.