Purifi or Hypex

[Sfleck1606]

After a lot of reading and scrolling I have decided to give a Buckeye amp a go. My main reason for this is space limitations and a wife who doesn’t like large metal boxes sitting on a stand on the floor. I am currently running Bower and Wilkins 683 s2 fronts, htm6 s2 center and m1 satellite surrounds, and SVS SB1000 pro sub through a Denon x4700h AVR. Bowers and Wilkins while somewhat easy to drive like lots of juice from what I have found. I am looking to drive the front 3 with the amp while keeping the 2 surrounds on the Denon. In looking at the Hypex 4 channel va the Purifi 3 channel I am having a hard time finding the reason for the difference in price which is substantial. I listen to more music than I watch movies and tv so I would pay extra if it is worthwhile sonically. I would appreciate your thoughts and opinions as I am fairly new to all this. Also, is it detrimental to have this amplifier whichever it is to sit on top of my subwoofer? Perhaps using a turntable iso platform to reduce vibration. It would help me keep the speaker cables shorter. Thanks for your help and input!

 

[sweetchaos]

Here's Matias's awesome amplifier spreadsheet, filtered by 'hypex' and 'purifi':

Also, Buckeye just announced (1 hour ago), the preliminary pricing for Hypex NCx500 amps:

Looking like $749 for the mono, $1049 for the stereo, and $1349 for the 3ch.

Hope that helps.