Mark Levinson 534 compared to Pass 350.8

I have not heard the recent Mark Levinson amps, but from past experience and intimate familiarity with this and past Pass amps. Pass is much more natural and musical and an excellent pairing with your Audio Research preamp. Mark Levinsen stuff has great specs, is clean and neutral but really lacks rhythm and pace and real world musicality. You can’t really call it analytical sounding but it lacks what the Pass has.

Thank you!

Is it just these 2 in the mix?  Coda seems to be more of the goto comparison/competitor with Pass for warmth and musicality than Levinson.  The solid state I have longer term experience with that has warmth, musicality,  and great tone is Circle Labs.  It is a hybrid,  but it still looks 95% solid state to me, however much impact the 2 little tubes have.  If you need that much power, you'd have it and then some if you can do monoblocks. 

@roxy1927 I would add Pass X260.8 into the mix. I had these amps driving my Wilson Sabrina and they’re outstanding. Plenty of Class A power as well. Good synergy with ARC Ref 6 that I had for few weeks on loan. Unless you really need the power of the X350.8, I’d opt for the mono blocks.
Haven’t heard Levinson in a long time and don’t know how it matches with the ARC preamp.
Coda is amazing as well but if you’re running balanced interconnects might not be a good match with ARC preamp due to Coda’s relatively low input impedance.

If you mention your speakers you might get better and more accurate recommendations.

Levinson support of their amps is iffy, $$