British are very hard to beat in this market, top units for your price are Musical Fidelity A3 and Mission Cyrus 7..... if you want Linn go for Kollector/LK85 combo for more money but big step up from Majik. Audio Refinement is good unit, would not even consider AA Pucini. LFD Mistral is good but a class below the MF and Cyrus.
Best Integrated amp 'around' $1000???
I'm curious what people think the best integrated amp in the $1000 or so retail range is. It seems the short list is Linn Majik, AR Complete, AA Puccini, Roksan (Kandy/Caspian?), Sim I-5080, Maybe Jolida. Let me know what I'm missing and what your experiences in this $$ range have been. Thanks.