Moving to separates


Does anyone have an experience they'd like to share about going from just an AVR or integrated to using external amp(s)?  My Integra AVR has 100 W per channel (class AB), all channels driven, and sounds very good, so it is not clear to me that there is any advantage to connecting its preouts to a separate amp.  Might be a total waste of money.  Please mention your specific equipment.  Thanks!

skeptikal

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I have considered an integrated amp to replace my separates, with which I am happy (incl an Odyssey Khartago++ amp). Why? Amp/preamp synergy in one box, eliminating interconnects. Two are on my short list because they "play well" with my Vandersteen Treo CT speakers:

1 - Aesthetix Mimas

2 - Ayre AX-5 / Twenty


3 - A few others including Constellation and Soulution, which are quite a bit more expensive and therefore out of reach, though excellent.

I like the idea of simplifying my system to just an integrated plus DAC (maybe even internally...Aesthetix does a good DAC card), and streamer and CD player.

OR— I will got the other way and get monoblocks! Oy. Choices, choices.