Recommendation for ATC SCM150 Amp/Pre

I ordered SCM150 passive speakers and awaiting shipment in about 2 months.

Looking for an amp/pre amp combination that would best work with these speakers.

I have a large pretty well treated room, 45' x 16' x 8'

My taste is classical large scale symphony, piano, cello etc.

Dynamics are very important but so is tone and instrument timbre.

I love harmonically rich tube sound but understand that I will be limited by power.

Front end: Technics 1200G with umami red cart, luxman eq500 phono, Aurender A100 streamer/dac.

I am open to Bi-amping options if anyone can recommend from personal experience.

budget 20k for amps, 10k preamp, used market ok.

possibilities : Electrocompaniet AW 300M, single AW800, Audio research Ref 250 or possibly 750, luxman m10x, etc.

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audiotroy Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,872 posts 12-20-2024 at 12:42am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Op we were electro dealer for many years the aw 400s are excellent however the best combo we eve heard with our atcs was the Coda 16 power amplifier which had even better bass control and slam while also having a rich well fleshed out midrange, and a much wider sound-stage,then the electro amplifiers and we combined that with the awesome zesto leto line stage the sound was incredibly life like and vivid we were talking about that particular demo for weeks after wards. Dave and Troy Audio intellect NJ Atc, Coda and Zesto dealers