Looking for Integrated Amp for Dynaudio 1.3 MkII's

I had the Bryston B100SST and to me the Naim XS and Octave V70SE just destroy the Bryston in every way. I traded in my Bryston for the Octave. Both the Naim and the Octave are high current integrateds and the Bryston is not. That being said I fought my audio dealer for over a year thinking the Bryston would be too hard to beat. Well an in home demo proved me wrong in the first 10 seconds of listening.

The 1.3 mkIIs can be a touch hot sounding on the top end with some amps and are a tad towards the warm side of sound overall.

That and their appetite for juice makes Class D amps a very good option.

Toe out/indirect tweeter orientation can be used in placing the Dyns to help tame the top end as well if needed. Thtend to image and sound best this way in general I have found

I owned these speakers for some time before moving up in the Dyn product line, and depending on your room size and preferred listening volume, your NAD should be fine. Jaxwired is correct in that these speakers do not have the brighter treble some Dyn models are known for, so if you decide to change I'd look for an integrated from NAD, Plinius, Simaudio or other good SS manufacturers with more power/current.

If you want something different, by all means try a tube unit. Tubes can definitely provide a different sound, just as the same album may sound very different when played on a turntable vs via CD or DAC.