Amp with HT/AV Bypass Suggestions?

vanillaman

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Thinking about possibly changing my amp, I'm looking in the £2000 / 2500 price range, I do need HT/AV Bypass and would like at least 1 digital input with a decent onboard DAC.
It'll be running ProAc D20R's in a 16 x 26ft room I play my music quietly quite a lot so something good at driving the speakers at low volume preferred and do like.

Ones I've been looking at:

Rega Elicit Mk5 .... not overly powerful
Marantz Model 40n .... least powerful would it be enough
Rotel RA-1592MkII ... don't know a lot about Rotel
Nad C399 ... Really appealed until I saw a comment somewhere saying Nad stuff lasts 6 months, don't know how true that is?

Was also thinking 2nd hand Hegel H190 and saw a comment saying they're quite "clinical".

Interested to hear thoughts on any of the above or any other suggestions.
The Rega Elicit Mk5 is still your best choice. Since your are familiar with the amp why not go for that instead of beating about the bush.
 

hifinutt

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Hegel are NOT clinical , heard the argon one with a modest hegel and it was just musical and emotion a plenty

I the marantz 40 n i think is class ab and should be good with proac
 

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