Zu Omen or Tekton Lore

The Almarro A318B is a high current SET that produces SET mids with very strong bass. The highs are pristine.
It has 18 watts per channel.
I bought it after reading a 6Moons review that comapred it to amps costing upward of over $10,000.
I've never regreted my purchase.
It does rock, jazz, solo and everything in between.
I just bought a NAD C-565BEE cd player that has gotten some very inpressive reviews. I'm looking to upgrade from my Emotiva ERC-1. A freind brought over a Sony XA5400 cd player and we hooked it up in my system. It cold smoked the Emotiva, so naturally I had to get a better front end.
A Audiogoner posted in one of the Sony 5400 threads that he liked the NAD just as much as the Sony. And the NAD is much less, so I'm going to audition it this weekend.
The Lore speaker responded very well with the better front end.
So for now, my amp and my lores have a place in my music room for quite a while.

Thanks zmanastronomy. I may look into the Almarro if my current amp does not work well. Do you know if the Almarro allows for the use of a separate preamp into the Almarro's amplifier section? I like my current pre, a Supratek Syrah with phono. Thanks.

Your Manley's should be a great amp for the Lore.

Zman - read the same thread as you and therefore ordered a NAD BEE 565. My BEE is coming tomorrow. Just ordered the Lore's, actually a buddy bought them for me, yeah! It will be interesting to hear from fellow Lore owners as to what hardware and cabling choices make them sing.

I've emailed the poster of the NAD cd player to ask him to give me a in-depth review of the differances of the Sony and the NAD and he was almost stating the NAD was his favorite.
That's what prompted me to buy the NAD.
Gooddomino, email me and I'll forward you his response.
I'm sure he wont mind.