Integrated that blew you away

+1 Belles Aria!

The belles Aria Integrated blew me away enough to convince me to buy it. Its basic, no nonsense design and sumptous audio quality continues to dazzle with its ability to connect me to the music on a grand scale.

What may be interesting if we rephrase the OP question is not " what integrated blew me away" but what integrated blew me away for the ratio S.Q. /price paid...

Anybody with open budget can buy an integrated designed  without limit of cost...

But no one could not ever hear it...

There it is.  No way a 15 year old IA purchased for $600 will sound as good as the Current design $5000 IA. Apples for Oranges period!

You should start your own thread then, instead of derailing this one.

You are a bit rude boy for a newcomer ? Are you always like that in a new forum after 13 posts ?

My goal was not to derail the thread but to make people more detailed in their best integrated discovery account....

There is always for each of us a specific history...

There is always in our experience a ratio S.Q./ price at play...

The best integrated someone has heard is not necessarily the priciest...

 Also hearing a piece of gear is done in a specific room with specific speakers...

 This is why i asked to precise these details. There no best integrated in the absolute generally save  few 500,000 bucks pieces...