Lietuvis91

Ah, ****. Pasted this in the wrong place.

I’m in the same camp as you, but I have the RTi series. I started a thread earlier this week and people suggested the following:

NAD
Parasound
Carver

I’m looking at those top three right now because they’ve supposedly tamed the RTi’s brightness. From what I’ve read on these forums, the Monitor series isn’t as bright as the RTi series.

B&K
Rotel
Odyssey Stratos
Carver
ADCOM

Those were some other general recommendations. In regards to Emotiva, I’ve heard it’s a rather bright amplifier, which in my case, would be a bad mix. If this wasn’t the case, I’d probably be checking them out as well.

Here are some great places to buy (recommended by fellow members in Polk and AVS):

http://www.saturdayaudio.com/
http://www.spearitsound.com/specials.htm
http://www.vintagehifishop.com/
http://www.audioadvisor.com/products.asp?dept=10
http://cgis.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/src...=Emotiva&B1=go