What's the greatest bargain in SET these days?

Again, I don't like to rain on anyone's parade, but fwiw:

The PX-25 is rated at either 5 or 6 watts, depending on what specs are looked at. The Art Audio Jota, another SET amp, is rated at 20 watts or more, depending on tube choice. Here is a comment that was posted elsewhere a few years ago by one of our particularly knowledgeable and experienced members, Jazdoc, who uses Daedalus Ulysses speakers (which I also happen to have), which are MUCH more efficient than the de Capos:

I tried my Ulysses with the high current Art Audio Jota. It was great at low volume but audibly ran out of gas a mid-high listening volumes.

I have nothing but the greatest respect for the credibility and opinions of both Charles and Jazdoc. I have no experience with Art Audio products, and I have no idea how to reconcile these seemingly conflicting inputs. But I thought I should point this out.

Best regards,
-- Al

Common Sense Audio offers a 300B-based integrated under the name Audio Nirvana for $1.5K that, to my ear at least, was not far behind a similarly-spec'd Audion amp that costed four times as much. Could be worth looking into. See here for details:

http://www.commonsenseaudio.com/nirvanaamps.html

(To be clear: I am not in any way affiliated with Common Sense Audio...just liked what I heard)...

Interesting topic for me. I love the set amps. I currently have the Lamm ML2.2 monoblocks and Coincident, Frankenstein, 300b set's. I have the Coincident Statement preamp and the Lamm LL2.1 pre. It is absolutely stunning to listen to the creations of these 2 very talented designers. It has been a long hard listen to determine which pairing I should keep because I can't afford to keep them both.

Al,
I appreciate your learned input. I am really not terribly worried about running out of gas with an SET amp. I could be proven wrong, of course. But my listening room is closed in and not terribly large – around 11' x 16' with an 8 foot ceiling. I listen about 8 feet away from the front of the speakers – not exactly nearfield, but not very far away, either.
I'm also not terribly into listening very loud. That's subjective, of course, but I tend to like to "listen into" the music rather than being battered by it. :-)
Finally, the owners manual for the De Capo’s says that excellent results can be achieved with "purist amps" of only a few watts. The owners manual also points out that while 92 dB is not considered incredibly efficient in the world of loudspeakers, because the speaker has no real crossover and the main driver is run directly connected to the amplifier, there isn't a complicated circuit inside sucking up amplifier power.
To do some more due diligence on this, I'm going to pick up the phone today and call GalenCarol Audio in San Antonio. They carry both Reference 3 A and Art Audio products. Let me see what they say about pairing the De Capo with this kind of amplifier. I will report back.

Mdemaio,
Wow, that Audio Nirvana amp looks really interesting! $1550 for a beefy 300b SET? Hmmmmm...