The most emotional amp out there?


OK gang, I need your votes for the amp you feel that brings the chills, the goosebumps, yes maybe even a teardrop or two when you sit down and listen to your particular music of choice. Although many responders will automatically think of tubes, I do not necessarily share that "prejudice". I'm trying to find that special amp to mate with my Virgo IIs that really takes me to the heart of the music...as opposed to just performing the requisite audiophile tricks (e.g. imaging, soundstage depth, etc.). I'm tired of appreciating the specific virtues of a well known amplifier that I am auditioning but never really being transported to a place where I forget about the gear and simply am enthralled with the music.

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy the audiophile thing as much as the next person. But I am searching for the amplifier that will transcend the need to go through the checklist of listening attributes a reviewer does and instead will simply allow me to sit back and just be enveloped by the message that the particular recording artist I am listening to is trying to communicate.

I hope I'm being somewhat inteligible here and thanks for your suggestions.

Gregg
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I'm swooning over the most luscious Heathkit UA-2's. They are unmodified but completely refreshed, generating 16 watts (per side) from NOS 6BQ5's.
Why is an amp supposed to be "emotional"? I thought the goal of us amp makers was to produce a product that neither added to, subtracted from, or changed the original source.

Right????

Pat
There seems to be more soul in most LP's than in the whole lot of CD's out there. Tonight with a few beers the best was some old R&B on a scratchy old disc.

I'm tellin' ya 'bout my Rocket 88, cruisin and boozin' along...

It's all about the company you keep... and the joy you find there
Audio Note Kegons... wow.

My Lamms really are wonderful as far as connecting me to the music, but the Kegons just blow me away. Maybe someday....
The MUSIC suppys the emotion--I think the question is better asked, "Which amp PASSES more of the emotion of music?"
I know what he is asking...since the first time I heard cj gear, I heard this emotion in the music rendered like never before. It was intoxicatingly real, and very different for me than with solid state.
The key seems to be tubes--and the way they pass the micro and macro dynamics of music, which are the emotion clues.
Great Question!!
Larry