Compact Low-Powered Amp Recomendations?

Second the sophia reccomendations. Also that Trends unit mentioned before is absolutely stunning. www.audiomagus.com sells them in stock ot tweaked form.

I had a stock baby and a stock trends driving bg ribbon monitors and while both were good, the trends high frequency pureness stol the show.

All,

Thanks for the feedback. I am now leaning more towards the purchase of a low powered integrated (more flexible). Any ideas?

Steve

Steve,

The Trends is a near no-brainer at $150 brand new. You can resell it at 50% of list if you don't like it and only lose $75!

I have the Red Wine Audio Reali-T and it is really good. It is a 6 w/channel integrated amp with a Scott Nixon DacKit built in. It's a really flexible unit and it sounds great! The Red Wine Audio Clari-T is basically the same thing without the built-in DAC. I've seen Clari-Ts sell for well under $500. It's pretty spankin' good and it's battery powered! But, it's automatic charging system makes it work just like any other amp.

Enjoy,

TIC

BTW, If I were looking for the ultimate cool office system, I would have to look at one of these:

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?dgtlplay&1194920311

It's an all-in-one CD Player, tube amp, tube pre-amp and tuner in one cool package. Gotta love the hidden volume control and selector knobs built into the top of the front post. How cool is that?!!!!

Oh, and you can even stick you iPod onto it!!!!

Enjoy,

TIC

Reubent,

Thanks! The TA 10.1 definately sounds like a no brainer. I'm a little concerned about having to keep an eye out on the DC offset. So many choices....

Steve