Integrated amp: VAC, DK ref, Ayon Sunrise or Karan

I've spent a lot of time with DK and some with Ayon and VAC.

VAC has a range of offerings varying from medium to high priced. They are all tube, although if I remember correctly, at least some of them are solid state rectified.

The Ayon I've heard at CES were extremely expensive and sounded AMAZING. I think they were fairly high powered SET but I may be wrong.

I guess the most I could say is that all of the offerings that I've heard from these firms were excellent in their price range. I don't think I've ever heard any piece by any of these firms that I would not thoroughly enjoy living with.

The DK does need experimentation with tubes and also I found it necessray to leave it on 24/7 for optimal sound quality (probably due to it being a tube/solidstate hybrid).

Art

In my opinion, the Magico Minis need more power than any of these integrateds can deliver. If you have this $20,000 pair of speakers, find a way to to get separates and go for high power.

DK puts out upto 800W into a 1ohm load! Plenty of power for the Magico's.

Consider Butler and Blue Circle.

Are the Magicos a 1 ohm load?