SO YOU’VE ENJOYED your time with your £1,500 integrated – be it an entry-level Naim Nait, Exposure 2010, Roksan K3, or whatever – but now your system is crying out for something better. You want more power, greater detail, better stereo imaging, and less midband mush. Most of all, though, you crave a more musical sound. As good as your amp may be, you’ve heard more costly systems make your favourite tunes sound so much more rousing. So where do you go?
In the old days, the obvious way to go would be a pre/power amp combination. But for a number of reasons now, that’s much more of a high-end thing. These days, there are many integrated amps occupying the middle price sector, and it seems strange to pay for…