I auditioned this piece at home for about a week. My equipment was Nautlis 805's, Arcam Alpha 9 CD, and Transparent music wave pulse speaker wire and interconects. First, the sound was sexy: Very smooth and non fatiging. My girl friend absolutly loves it. In fact, in some ways I did too. I did not care for the transformer hum. I think this has something to do with the tuner though because the hum leaked mostly into the tuner, especially when the lights were turned on the noise level increased. I think I may buy the 308 integrated amp from magnum. It is the first sub-5000 dollar combo I have come across that has some groove to it. One quark though, it did not like playing RadioHead. However it sounded wonderful on classicas, vocals, and Jazz.
Hope this helps,
Hope this helps,