Any thoughts in ICE amps?

I do love my Bel Canto M300s. The reviews are pretty much all over the map, as you have seen. Also, the measurements are weird and as in tube amps don't tell you how it sounds. There is something about the synergy of these amps with the speakers. My advice is to audition them in your home first or buy with the option of returning them. Don't believe all the comments you read on line. Trust your own ears.

I have PS Audio GCA 250 with Underwood HiFi level 2 mod running my Magnepan 3.5R ribbon tweeters and a pair of Wyred4Sound SX 500s on the mid/bass panels. Tough lods to be sure, but the amps handle with aplomb. Fabulous sound, too!

I'd take a look at the Spectron Premier. It 'breaks the mold' on the limitations of what most people associate with Class D amps.

It sort of combines the best of tube and good SS amps without any veil to the music. The frequency range is very flat, the highs are extended without being bright or harsh, the midrange is very liquid and the bass is very tight and rich.

You can view the professional and user reviews on their website.

As a matter of disclosure, I am an authorized dealer for Spectron and became one becasue these amps are phenominal.

I have a new multi-channel Wyred4Sound ICE amp and it is, frankly, astoundingly good.

And, in fact, I'm going to take this opportunity to apologize to Mr. Bob Reynolds for previous comments. I indicated he was crazy if he could not tell the difference between a SET amp and a class AB solid-state amp in his system. Well, would you believe that this ICE amp sounds so close to my 300B set that differences are a matter of subtleties? I can now readily tell them apart, but at first they appeared nearly identical!

Before anybody thinks the system is unresolving or I can't hear, I'll add that switching between two world-class linestages, both tube, in this system, produces sonic differences to the extent that I can almost literally tell them apart from the first note. They're both great - but very different.

The funny thing to me is that I paid $800 for WE 300B output tubes to get that articulation and linear sound. If I were using cheaper 300Bs that invariably sound a little rounder, the differences would certainly be less subtle.

Please don't gloat too much, Bob, because most SETs still sound quite different from most AB transistor amps. Heck, most SETs sound quite different from *each other*, with each output tube have a distinctive set of characteristics.

H2O amps drive 1-ohm Apogee Scintillas!