Let's say to be short: Classe has no life and presentation while Primere is pretty full of life and presentation in general. Than I would look onto the factors like extention top-end,bottom-end etc... but if the first factor(i.e. how the amp "sais Hello to you":)) is absent than excuse me, I pass on this component. I believe that with NHT you might not realy eveluate neither of Classe or Primere amps. Thus I recommended you to look onto the other lines with cheaper price range such as Parasound, Aragon or Adcom. There you can find a descent amp for your speakers that is pretty powerful and within $500+-...
I usually have a general formula: $speakers=$amps. It's is more appropriate to have speakers more expencive than amp but not otherwise in most of the cases.
I usually have a general formula: $speakers=$amps. It's is more appropriate to have speakers more expencive than amp but not otherwise in most of the cases.