Amp's suggestions for B&W Nautilus Prestige?

Goodness Sphere, you must get around. Where did you have the pleasure of hearing the Rowland MC606 as a tri-amp solution or as part of a quad-amp? What were its shortcomings vs the Phonosophie equivalent?

Rowland has (or had two weeks ago) the 606 set up in a tri-amp configuration driving a couple of custom Magicos (not anything you've seen in the audiophile mags).

Dave

My apologies, not the 606 but the 501s and all the reference Krells and the ARCs. I recommend the Phonosopie only because the situation demands an active setup. Let me put it this way, the Krells, ARC and the Jeffs make Kari Bremnes sound like top High end gear playing within varying degrees of audiophilia, the Phonosopie made her sound closer to human with a lesser degree of audiophile pyrotechnics. Anyways its just a recommendation, had the requirement been for a passive loudspeaker I would have gone another route depending on the speaker.

Mcintosh 501s X 8.

I am using the Jeff Rowland 616 500X2 250X4 and a 201 for the top with PC1. magic. have tried Classe /Parasound and find this is the best.

At that level I would not cut corners with amps. If it was me, and I wish it was, I would have two pair of high end monoblocks with really good biwire coming out of each. Many choices available could go SS on lows and tubes on mid/highs or all the same. My gut tells me like all B&Ws they really excel with amps with lots of headroom. If not you can give them to me to figure out. Ha,Ha,Hee,Hee