Amp for Special 40's

Belles Aria is a fantastic match with S40s and is $2300 new and used around $1500 if you can find one.

I used a Belles Soloist 1 with my S40s and now use an Aria Signature. Stunning. 

Yes, I've seen that video and to be honest I don't trust this guy. He's pretty much a salesman who tries to sell his product, and I don't think he knows more about making good sounding speakers than a company like Dynaudio.

Another consideration. Watch Danny's You Tube video-GR Research. He just did a look see into that speaker. He has thoughts. 

@rafaelg - Forgot to mention that I bought the amp used here on Audiogon for $2,100, so it’s not that far out of budget. 

From what people are saying, I'd go with the Schitt stuff. 

I love the Special 40s, went and compared the Evoke 20s and 40s and ended up with the Evoke. I am very happy with my 22xx Marantz, it does the magic for Dynaudio with anything but classical music.

julie_priest My main issue with Focus 20XD is that S40 have much better drivers (Esotar40) but I do understand that both options will sound amazing!
Also the fact that Focus 20XD is around for several years and heavily discounted these days ($4000 from $8000 MSRP) hints to an updated version coming soon.

kcpellethead Thank you, that amp looks fantastic, however it's definitely not in my budget range. I can only imagine your main system.

I have a pair of Special 40 (6 ohm load) in my office powered by a Benchmark AHB2 (130 watts @ 6 ohms), with the LP4 pre and the Mytek Brooklyn Bridge upstream. I am very happy with this as a second system. I realize the AHB2 is a little above your budget, but it gives an idea of an amp that seems to play nice with these speakers.

Focus XD 20 produce stellar sound. No struggle to find better amps etc, it's well tuned inside. Very, very powerful. 

On a different forum people told me that H95 won't have enough power for Special 40's, so I didn't consider them.

Some people also advised me to get Focus 20XD instead of S40+ budget amp, since S40 need an expensive amp to fully unfold it's potential :/ 

Hegel H95 is an excellent choice if you can squeeze a few more bucks. I has built in streaming and top notch quality. I've seen one on here for $1750 

My sense with the 40s is that the amp should have some power.

brother in law has those w EL tube VTL Integrated, great sound.

my vote would be 2 over 1 you mentioned

in a small room pretty much any decent integrated would work