best 2 channels power amp around $3k?

"ALL good amplifiers sound the same" Go to a few audio stores, have them switch between two or three different amps. Make sure the volume levels are maintained equal, there will be no audible difference. When buying an amp quality of construction is important. go to this website and read a little, you can learn a lot. http://sundial.net/~rogerr/

"There will be no audible difference", heh heh heh...ARE YOU A ROBOT? That's THE biggest pile of horse dung I've ever heard!!!!!! Get the hell out of this hobby, or else learn to listen already!!

Johnmbod, I don't know where you have been listening, but if the audio dealer that did a multi amp demo for you showed you no difference in sound, then you need to listen at another store. He must have had such poor equipment that he obscured the difference! Amps are just as different as engines are in cars, they are very different, and that is part of why people argue about what they hear on their speakers.

I would strongly recommend used equipment which ever you choose. For solid state I like Threshold or Bryston but I'm really a tube fan myself, ARC Conrad Johnson or Melos. On my Dunlavy SC V's at home, all of these have sounded different. It's going to be a matter of taste trade-offs and what music and speakers you listen to.