Budget integrated amp needed

I think that you will have to buy used.  I'm putting together a system for some very un audio friends for about a thousand bucks.  When talking to a few local dealers about something at your price point, there wasn't much but one dealer, while we chatted, was checking out Craigslist and pointed out an Outlaw Receiver that's only available direct from the company otherwise he would carry it.  The salesman waxed poetic about this company. Three hundred bucks.  I checked it out and bought it. It's nothing short of fantastic, phono mm/mc is dead quiet, with plenty of power with features that a NAD owner could relate to.  I could recommend this over or at least as musically inviting as some much more expensive gear that I compared to over a month of listening.  And when I installed it in my reference rig over the holidays, I just left it in place.  Keep an eye out for one of these.