I have totem winds as speakers thus my choice for the bryston 4b sst2, Bang for the buck i dont think there was another amp that could drive them as good as the bryston could. As a preamp i a laid my hand on a demo Bryston Bp26 with integrated DAC. Got that piece for a steel. I love quotes like Rcrerar made so nice of him. NOT. Like Shannere said sometimes you like to be convinced by other audiogonist that they too have enjoyed a certain piece of equipement. The other problem i had was that i couldn't listen to the new square model of Bryston on my winds at my dealer because he hadnt received it yet, but i did have chance to listen to the SST model before and i did enjoy the sound it reproduced with my winds. Therefore the reason why i left this quote was to get some feed back of the new square model.