Amp for Focal Diablo Utopia Colour Evo

Agreed that tube amps do well with Focal as do many class A ss amps. My limited experience with ss A/B amps has not been good meaning the tweeter is harsh and I find myself looking for ways to pull back the tweeter. This is not good because when you find the right amplification (personnel preference) that tweeter is marvelous. 

You might want to try RENO Hi-Fi as Mark offers a demo period and if you don't like the amp you can always return it. Pass also makes a couple of very nice class A integrated(s) if you are inclined to go that route. 

I am curious as to how you like you Diablos and what your previous speakers were.

Chuck 

I’m a big fan of JRDG, owned several of their products over the years but unless they’ve changed something the 535 class D amp is getting pretty long in the tooth technology wise - I had the same Pascal modules in the Continuum integrated and it just was sort of a boring amp - I tried Primaluna separates against it with both the Vandersteen Treo and Magico A3 and in both cases I found the JRDG much less favorable sounding.  Very precise and good in its own way, but it can be sterile.  Plus there’s been a lot of new Class D tech coming out.

I only started getting into hifi a couple of years ago, started with a NAD integrated driving a pair of Revel m106.  I thought it sounded good until I went to a store and listened to a primaluna driving a pair of Focal Kanta No1s.  It sounded much more open than my system, so I bought the primaluna evo 400 about a year ago.  At the same, changed to streaming instead of CBS, so much more music and convenience, went with premare for the streamer preamp.  But still didn't sound very open, so got the Diablo Utopia a couple of months ago.  It made a world of difference and the system now sounds very open but I wonder if I should now upgrade the amps and the streamer
Sounds like maybe I should stick with the primaluna and upgrade the preamp and streamer instead!

oh, and I'm from Hong Kong where the shops won't let me try out the systems, can only listen to them in the store.  But it's impossible to find a store that can replicate my system at home for a test as they carry different brands.. So I pretty much have to research what I want then buy it and hope for the best.

One more thing, the houses in Hong Kong are tiny unless you're mega rich.  So I don't have a listening room and my system is in the living room which is about 300 sqft.  One major limitation I have is that my hifi components has to go on TV cabinet/desk which is only 16 inches deep (wife won't allow a hifi cabinet or changing to a deeper one), this really limits the amps that I can get to 17 inches deep..So the Pass Labs stuff won't fit