Amp with best bass control

Vicdamone...I still play, mostly guitar and songwriting.

@ Mbovaird, Thats cool, I am from Florida my self!, north west Florida, It is my exsperience with damping factors to sound alot worse than eanything I ever owned!, I bought a Rotel solid state amp back in the mid nintys, the dampning factor was thru the roof!, the amp sounded good, when I bought my first Krell amp, LOL!, that shitt was over!, there are many ways to do dampning, Isolation of your componets is way better than a specification that means, really nothing!, you should check out some still points ultra 5 cones that can be used for componets or speakers, they will do the trick!, you may not take my word on this mike, go and audition some, like you did the amps, you have to admit, I was correct about the Dan D Agistino amps, you may find this to be true with the still points ultra 5 cones, I awaite to hear from you, most enjoyable to talk with you, cheers.

The D'Agostino amp is one of my favorites - indeed! You have to be careful with isolation. Too much isolation is not good IMO. Isolation causes equipment to store up energy and this energy needs to be released. We are all talking about isolation, but no one is asking "is this really a good thing?" I think we may learn in the near future, that too much isolation is not ideal.

I am narrowing my amp selection down to Audionet, Burmester and Soulution. D'Agostino is still in the running - but I need to hear it on D3's.

@ Mbovaird, yes you are absolutly correct, to much isolation can turn out like to much room treatment!, its much easier to screw a listening rooms sound up from over treatment than it is with isolation, I really do not isolate, I tune with the cones by moving them around under componets to get the best pleaseing sound possible, and use objects on top of componets to help if needed,, I would spend days listening to the Agistino amp on your speakers before I would make a rash decision, what is the specks on your new speakers that are being built, if you do not mind me asking, and how many hours of burn in time will they take to achieve absolute best sound?, cheers.

@audiolabyrinth - the D3 specs are 89db, 6ohms, with a impedance ohm drop into the 3 range.

I am flying to Boston next week for a demonstration of the Audionet amp/preamp on the D3's. In addition, my friend may bring his Soulution 501's so we can compare head-to-head vs the Audionet. I'm very much looking forward to that.

The new Audionet DNP preamp is very interesting. I would like your thoughts on it. If you search on youtube, you will actually find Audionet demonstrating their amps with the Raidho C3.1 speakers (same specs as my D3). Here is a review on the new preamp: http://www.i-fidelity.net/en/test-reports/high-end/audionet-dnp/audionet-dnp.html

You know I absolutely love the D'Agostino amps, and my friend who owns the D'Agostino amps/preamp just bought a pair of D3's! So, I will get to hear that combo too.

I'm also interested in the Viola Acoustics amps. The monos were favorably reviewed in the latest Tone Magazine (you can download this for free) at www.tonepublications.com or just the review at: http://www.violalabs.com/sites/default/files/viola_review_bravo.pdf