Emotiva XPA DR2 Gen 3

Excellent amp! I see several available on eBay for around $1200. It will work great with the Vandies!

@jasonbourne52 Thanks for the comment. Will be using a Rotel pre with balance out. I think the preamp my not be a true balance out. 

Single-end or balanced connections either is good. I think balanced is over-rated. You may be right about the Rotel being fake balanced! Me, I stick with RCA.

I agree with @jasonbourne52, the Emotiva XPA DR2 Gen 3 is a nice amp, but I prefer the sound of the Emotive XPA-1 Gen-2 it's class A up to 60 watts.

Mike

Rotel has long advertised "balanced design" but most of their gear does not have truly balanced XLR inputs and outputs...