Anything SS sounds better than D'Agostino ?

I haven't heard DAG's, but I did have a Krell FPB300 for several years
and it was a fine amp in every way. But DAG is quite fancy looking and certain reviewers think they're wonderful. I later upgraded to a pair of Levinson 33H's and they were some of the finest sounding I've ever heard. I don't like paying for cosmetics outside of a preamp or a turntable.  The Pass XA series has never failed to impress anyone who has heard them and are priced far more realistically.  I have a friend with Aleph amps that even now are in high demand but aren't pretty to "look at".

I graduated from Krell to Boulder and never looked back.
So much more musical, Boulder amps do a better job of drawing you into the music, and the timbre is in a different league. When i put a 2060 into my system it was as if i had treated my whole room, softening hard surfaces and smoothing out corners.
Then i heard 2160 and it was game over, despite the fact it would take me three yeats to save the funds.
I'm now 14 months into a 3 year plan.

You tube? C'mon man. Absolutely worthless.

Listen in a store or better yet, in your house.

@erik_squires +1 Ayre

I've got an MSB S-200 power amp and an MSB 'Analog DAC' which I use as a DAC and pre-amp, and that is superb sounding gear, like everything MSB makes....  I can't compare it to others I've not heard in my sound system, I can just testify to its amazingly great sound.