Luxman L-509X

Douggie, I hope you get that sorted out soon. The holes should be perfect in form.

Zero Fidelity on YouTube did a nice review on the Luxman 550axii, the little brother of the 590. He must have liked it, it's his new reference.

And the L-550 is their bottom class A integrated.....

Why, oh why, does an expensive amplifier such as this, include the addition of a switch, and additional wires / traces, for speaker switching / headphone listening. I have bypassed this switching and additional wiring, in several amplifiers ( most of them, coincidently, were of Japanese origin ), and the sound, became cleaner, had more detail, embraced me with a quieter black background, and showed me, much more dynamic capability. It is so easy to piggy back additional amplifiers, for a secondary system / additional set of speakers. So, given how good this amplifier is, I know, it could be better. I am sorry if I hurt feelings here.

always need to understand what any reviewers’ frame of reference is

sean is a good guy, but he reviews denon yamaha marantz, no name china tube amps...

of course he would be impressed with a luxman... do you think it might become his ’reference’ ???

LOL