Most musical, enjoyable affordable amplifier


Ive owned alot of amps over the decades, ss and hybrid and tubed! If only one of them was going to be my last and final journey into stereo i have to say the most fun  and just all around musically enjoyable experience i ever had was the venerable  Pioneer SA-9800 intergrated 100wpc amplifier. Their so beautiful to look at and the recording ability it has is amazing , even has a good sounding mm /mc phono to boot, everybody who listened to that amp at home was thrilled by its looks and sound.
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We all have a bespoke preference (actually a bias for "X" number of reasons .....) as to what actually stirs our drink, that is impossible to engender on the next dude.

For example, some dudes drive FORDs, some drive CHEVYs, and yet some drive JAGs, LAMBOs or BENTLEYS as their own strong opinion of a superior ride contender among a vast sea of previously culled-out pretenders ( note: pretenders ONLY to them .... ) ; thus the anecdotal and heavily biased influence factor .
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I will keep my Lafayette KT-550 amp.  Sweetest amp I own or have heard.

Happy Listening.