Warmer sounding Solid State

 I am using the Pm8005 in home theater bypass mode, and unfortunately to switch it in and out of this mode you need to hold down the button on the front of the unit for three seconds. which is a minor inconvenience, but an inconvenience none the less.



The main problem though is that the remote controls For both my receiver and the pm8005 control both units.  So it is impossible  to control the volume of  The PM 8005 without controlling the volume of the receiver as well.  Changing inputs on the receiver remote also results in input changes on the PM8005

Tweaks can only take you so far.  I too desired the warm, organic tube sound and ended up selling a Peachtree 150 in order to transition into tube gear.  If you want warm, tube-like sound you should get tubes instead of trying to "fix" your SS sound.

Hello,
Audio-GD is an chinese brand with incredibly ridiculous price-quality ratios in its products. 
I've had the Marantz PM-7005 and it sounded ok, not bad, but nothing ot of this world.
IMHO, you get much more for your money with Audio-Gd than with Marantz and many other brands. 
You can buy from them directly from their web page and get the product in a week or so. 

"Tres Payments" makes a point I've carped (that's right...carped!) about here and there...all the amp makers claiming a "tube like sound"...tubes are more tube-like than otherwise. Example: I, along with other older guitar players, was tricked (that's right...tricked!) into trying some SS guitar amps back in the day (that's right...the day!) and after an initial seduction period said, "no no no" and went right back to Boogies and Marshalls and Fenders, etc. I like tube hifi more than ANY SS stuff, and so should everybody else...I do have a Class D Ampeg bass amp though...it's actually kind of cool and weighs exactly 1/67th of an SVT, but ignore that for the purposes of this post.

I am liking the way the Nuforce DDA-120 Sounds with the power conditioner on it. 



Like I mentioned before, I'm beginning to believe that the top end (treble) problem I've been having wasn't really that there was too much top end or that the top end was too "forward' or "harsh", but more so that it was uncontrolled. 



I think now that I have this power conditioner in my setup I am hearing the same AMOUNT of treble, but it is no longer harsh because it is more controlled and the signal is cleaned up.  It now sounds more "delicate" up top. 



I still need to find something else to power these because the Nuforce will eventually have to go back into my desktop setup and I would like to have a little more power for these Dali Oberon's than the modest 50watts into 8ohms that the DDA-120 puts out.  I DO like the simplicity of the DDA.  Will the NAD C368 sound similar?