Pass Labs amp choice for CLS - What would you do?

Dchazen, take a look at my Gon reviews of the 350.5, XA-100's and XA-30.5's to get the details why I would select the 350.5 over the X-600's. I did not care for the X-series amps sonicly, but the X-.5 series are great sounding amps.

Srwooten, I'm glad that you love your Edge 10.1 in your system. I had an Edge NL-10 and enjoyed it very much, however when the new X-.5 series came out, it was much more musical then the NL-10 in my system. As stated above the X-series amps to me were somewhat cold and steely sounding to me, but when Nelson Pass came out with the X-.5 series and then the XA and XA.5 series he nailed it and I believe that he surpassed the Edge gear in its sonic performance.

Teejay-
My comments were only on the X-600's to help the OP.

Srwooten, I hope my comments regarding my experience with the Pass amps compared to the Edge was not taken by you as a put down or negative statement about you or your experience regarding the X-600's vs. 10.1, if so I'm sorry if it came across that way.

The Edge amps and the Pass Labs amps are some of the finest sounding SS power amps built today. It really comes down to personnal taste and system synergy.

Teajay-
Thanks for clarifying. No offense taken.

DCHAZEN,

To the question between between X350.5 or X600. I suggest the you take a look on the specs of your speakers. If the X350.5 can handle it, much better. Don't over drive your speakers.

For preamp. You can go for Passlabs or look for a tube preamp with a simple circuit like EAR 834L chrome, Audio Research, VTL etc.