Bd wrote :

An accurate amp is like a mirror... not everybody likes what they see...

that precisely is mine and a few others points, the point of listening to music is to like it. Music is not really head, its heart.

Steve: Are you sure on that one?, my instincts say otherwise...I have seen some pretty low figures around, Rotel amongst them.

Analogue Amp. design hasn't changed that much in 20 yrs, semiconductor technology has though.