My question was why you went with the Luxman, there must have been a reason.
I can understand how the abh2 "solved" the amplification problem as its distortion and noise is many times lower than many of the competitors.
It would be very interesting to test the Accuphase P-7300. It from what I can tell offers a more stable power delivery than the u900m, it has only 1dB worse signal/noise than the abh2 and offers >1000 damping factor. I've heard it's $32K in the USA, but "only" $23K here in Europe.
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