After years of separates, I'm going integrated. Anyone else do the same?

I have now had the Boulder 866 in my system for two days and I am really enjoying it.   If your budget can stretch o the Boulder it could be your last integrated. 

I went to a Rogers High Fidelity Tubed Integrated Amp, model EFH 200 Mark II. Without a direct comparison in the same system & room, there’s really no way to tell how just how really good it is but it’s REALLY good! Lots of power, best bass I’ve ever heard from tubes & a beautiful, detailed midrange with very realistic air & amazing subtle decay of sound that real instruments live have & few systems can duplicate. 

So according to op,  BHK and first watt are mid-fi? At best?? Huh... Wow... 

My Made in  U.S.A. Coda -CSIB  integrated amplifier is a Excellent  integrated, Many people still don’t know that Coda has been around over 35 years and all were Engineers with Nelson Pass at Threshold under Nelson went solo ,Coda has 3 power options for the same monies up to 18  1st watts into pure class A , the biggest low noise potted toroidal transformer I have ever seen at under $15k   It’s 3,000 Va  and over 120 short term amps on demand . Beware  of companies using cheap silver round  Alps volume pots ,they degrade low level detail for sure , the Coda has a Electronic Burr Brown class A  type it has Mosfets,fet, and 40 bipolor transistors on the outputs, 10 year warranty for $6500 or less, a true Great bargain in Audio .  Mike at Audio Archon is great to deal with and very competitive .

I went the opposite route.  I actually started with an integrated system.  Some cheap Japanese junk by Hitachi back in the 80s.  I then got into surround sound and my music playback was via a series of surround sound receivers.  My first "serious" integrated system was a Peachtree Nova 150.  

I moved to separates because I was unable to source an integrated that I could afford/live with, that featured bass management. I have perennially faced space constraints which dictated bookshelf speakers with understandably limited capacity for bass reproduction. 

Although I eventually managed to upgrade my living space and now use Canton floor standers for my main system, I still use separates because I like the flexibility when upgradeitis strikes.  In my bedroom system I use Kef LS50s driven by separates which allows me to channel the signal through a subwoofer with a highpass filter that reduces the load on the little Kefs. 

I"m fully cognizant that there are other means of accomplishing this, but there is a limit to how "separate" I want to get! :-)