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Most musical, enjoyable affordable amplifier

Ive owned alot of amps over the decades, ss and hybrid and tubed! If only one of them was going to be my last and final journey into stereo i have to say the most fun  and just all around musically enjoyable experience i ever had was the venerable  Pioneer SA-9800 intergrated 100wpc amplifier. Their so beautiful to look at and the recording ability it has is amazing , even has a good sounding mm /mc phono to boot, everybody who listened to that amp at home was thrilled by its looks and sound.
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First Watt F7, XA60.8’s, Accustic Arts Power ES, NAD m22 - none perfect, but all pretty musical amplifiers I currently own.  Two that I currently own but a little disappointed with from a musicality standpoint: Leben CS300 is a little too flabby (although headphone section is satisfying), Krell Evolution (a bit too analytical and thin, but has some wow factor areas as well).

That being said, I think the DAC section is the starting point of the conversation.  Preamps are fun to compare and contrast as well.  
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