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Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
@4425 What's out of whack? 
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
@mward, so I was planning on getting the best Rotel initially prior to starting this thread, but then got diverted by the WAF.  Atleast it'll sound good and hopefully she will like it.  My other amp is a beast, so atleast I have that to fall back ... 
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
@samac Thanks for the kind words... I think I will be happy otherwise it will go back. No worries, my main system dwarfs this one.  I guess you can call this the wife's system haha 
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
Lots of good recommendations on this thread.... I brought my wife to magnolia yesterday and she likes the black Rotel RA1592, so I think I may be stuck guys.   
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
Would love to do boulder or some super integrated, but it lacks swiss army knife functionality of rotel, bluetooth aptx, usb in front, onboard dac.  
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
@shadorne Thanks for the input on luxman and marantz, those are now out.  
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
@samac My brother has the MF6 integrated and likes it.  I think it sounds good as well.  DOes not have all the swiss army knife features of the rotel, which is why I lean rotel. The problem with going full Rotel RC1590/RB1590 stack is that the amp... 
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
Luxman?  Marantz? 
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
I can see the Krell of yore, but the new stuff does not interest me.  What about Arcam?  NAD?  Musical Fidelity? The only prerequisite I have is a plethora of options for input, including bluetooth, etc.  
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
Appreciate the comments.  
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
@ebm When you say "mediocre" sounding, which unit are you referring to and what similar price point would you recommend?   
Why pay so much for super high end?
Troll!I spend my money how I want to.  I don't have time to develop my own speaker, build it, and test it.  I can barely assemble a shelf.And cuz I make more per hour than I would ever get back building my own speakers. 
Why pay so much?
Don't feed the troll. 
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
@samac Thanks!  I heard the rc1590/rb1590 combo and I agree, very good combo!I have been trying to locate the RA1592 integrated that's based partly on the rc1590 and rb1582mk2... But no one has it so far. 
Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3
I had the RC1070 preamp before. Also had the RB1070 and then the RB1090 in the past and I enjoyed them. I like the look of the new ones and I want to make sure the capacitors and electrics are new so they last. I need it to be worry free because t...