If people are in this price range, my three suggestions, for you to sample different takes are the following:
Pass
Ayre
Luxman
and since you are coming from tubes, might even want to try out the ARC integrated.
I think between the Pass, Ayre, Luxman triad you’ll definitely find your happy place, but if you are coming from FirstWatt, and already know you like the Pass I doubt you'll go any other way, still, worth you to listen to them and come back and tell me what you think of the other two.
Pass
Ayre
Luxman
and since you are coming from tubes, might even want to try out the ARC integrated.
I think between the Pass, Ayre, Luxman triad you’ll definitely find your happy place, but if you are coming from FirstWatt, and already know you like the Pass I doubt you'll go any other way, still, worth you to listen to them and come back and tell me what you think of the other two.