Macquiar, bummer I couldn't find Mariza's live Concerto Em Lisboa on Tidal. I know it's on iTunes just didn't have time to get Apple Music connected to the Luxman before leaving for vacation. I will check it out when I get back, from my quick listen it sounds like a great song, as well as album.
From early listening the 509X is definitely a great integrated, at least with my setup. I would classify as neutral and smooth, with high resolution so it's revealing. If you hear gritty or bright it is will most likely comes from a component in the system. Even with bright sources the vocals coming in smooth. I have noticed cables, especially interconnects, make a noticeable impact with this amp, at least with my system. I can say for the first time I was able to really hear the difference between my copper AudioQuest Earth cables and silver Fire cables. In terms of power, I have not been able to move the volume knob passed the 10 o'clock position since it's way too loud with my ML 11As, which are somewhat demanding speakers which drop below 1 ohm in the high frequencies.
Also, using the Luxman + 8805 I really got to see the how great of a pre/pro the Marantz 8805 is. The analog output stages and discrete DACs are great.