Price Paid:  $825.00 from E-bay

Summary:
This power amplifier truly gives your system sound a truly "high end" touch. You fell you are playing in the big league. Remarkable power amplifier.

Strengths:
Transparency, sweetness, detailed, high-end sound

Weaknesses:
If your room is big (more than 30m2)and your speaker´s are hard to control, sometimes you fell you need more "power". This "weakness" is also due to the sound is so good you want "more" volume than usual.

Similar Products Used:
Rotel 990 & 980 BX

Price Paid:  $700.00 from Used (price is for new in Norway)

Summary:
Great poweramplifier for only $700 (Norway). Great value, in other words. Recommended. I own two.

Strengths:
Full, heavy bass, but not uncontrolled

Weaknesses:
not Dual Mono construction

Similar Products Used:
Electrocompaniet AW 120 DMB, Electrocompaniet AW 100 DMB

Summary:
Solid state very close to a tube gear. Velvet sound with deep and smooth bass, not very fast indeed, but neither sluggish. No harshness of any kind for truly sophisticated ears. Punch when needed but with silk glove. If you have hard speakers (<85 db, but, please, not electrostatic:() and no money for a suitable tube solution, AW-60 must be your machine. If used with a good and "fat" valve pre, sweet and rich cables, it's really hard to understand it's a solid state machine.