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Poll: Best Looking Stereo Integrated Amp

Which of the following amps will look best with the rest of my system?

  • Devialet Expert 400 (current amp)

    Votes: 15 14.7%
  • Luxman L509X

    Votes: 32 31.4%
  • McIntosh MA8900

    Votes: 9 8.8%
  • Technics SU R1000

    Votes: 24 23.5%
  • Yamaha AS 3200

    Votes: 22 21.6%

  • Total voters
    102
  • Poll closed .

watchnerd

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Okay, I'm going to admit it -- I can't hear the difference between a 96 dB SINAD amp and a 120 dB SINAD amp.

And I only need 2 channels.

So I might as well buy my next amp purely on cool factor.

What looks really good?

Power can output can be anything, really, as I can always buy more efficient speakers.

What's the best looking stereo integrated amp under $10K USD?

Here are the finalists:

[After a lot of great discussion and submissions, it's time to vote on the Top 5].

The choices (in alphabetical order):

#1 Devialet Expert 400 -- keep the current amp

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#2 Luxman LX-509X

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#3. McIntosh MA8900

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#4. Technics SU-R1000

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#5 Yamaha AS 3200

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The system your choice has to decoratively match and live within:

Mod Edit: Original post where the butchery began:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ereo-integrated-amp.18398/page-25#post-600530





Happy voting!
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A lot of great choices to choose from depending on other items in your system to match. I think these combine great value, aesthetics and performance:

1. Aesthetix Mimas
2. Line Magnetic 845ia
3. Audio Research Vsi75
4. Pure Audio The One (acquired taste)
5. SPEC RSA-M99 (above budget but can probably get one under 10K with dealer discount)
 

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Jeff Rowland Design Group, Continuum S2. Optional DAC, optional phono and optional headphone amp. Twin ultra-high efficiency power conversion modules yield 400 Watts per channel into 8 Ohms, doubling over 4 Ohms, and a peak current of 40 Amps.
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If you minimalist, Micromega M150. It has it all, Inc room correction and in six colours. French.
 
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A lot of great choices to choose from depending on other items in your system to match. I think these combine great value, aesthetics and performance:

1. Aesthetix Mimas
2. Line Magnetic 845ia
3. Audio Research Vsi75
4. Pure Audio The One (acquired taste)
5. SPEC RSA-M99 (above budget but can probably get one under 10K with dealer discount)

No pics?

Don't make us all Google all those images.
 

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McIntosh Labs MA352. Remote control, EQ, combines the finest of vacuum tube and solid state audio design principles. The MA352 has a vacuum tube preamplifier section that is powered by a pair of 12AX7A and a pair of 12AT7 vacuum tubes; its output stage is a direct coupled solid state amplifier that outputs 200 Watts per channel into 8 Ohm speakers or 320 Watts per channel into 4 Ohm speakers.
https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/integrated-amplifiers/MA352
https://www.speakershop.com/product/mcintosh-2-channel-integrated-amplifier-ma352-311471
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Cambridge EDGE-A. It looks clean and simple with quite excellent SINAD (100).

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