I love my Proceed HPA-2! Still around for 1200-1600. Not bad for a dual monaural amp that retailed for 3500 20 years ago. 250/8 500/4 bridgeable. I power a pair of DCM Time Frame 2000's to concert levels and neither amp or speakers break a sweat. It also has somewhat more to offer HT as there is also a HPA-3 for folks that like all channels with the same amp characteristics. I've owned mine now for 6 years and it does everything I could ask, and dream frankly. Your system should make you smile and mine surely does!
Amps that don’t impersonate space heaters.
There have been some epically hot periods in metropolitan Chicago this summer. I have had a long running affair with a pair of Avantgarde Uno s2’s and don’t really require a great deal of power. I have two dissimilar but equally compelling amps (a Pass 30.5 and a BAT vk-56) both prodigeous producers of heat creating a sauna like environment in my library/listening room the HVAC system not withstanding. What, if anything, have you boys and girls found that might replicate the qualities of my beloved amps minus the potential for 3rd degree burns and heat prostration?
Cheers and good fortune to you all.