Thanks John. I've seen your opinion on the subject in a number of other posts.
if they cover the 20-20KHz audible range
Actaully, for a man of my age, 20-14KHz is probably just fine.
I was at my brothers place today and he still has the first integated amp I bought. For giggles I decided to look it up on the internet to see how good my taste was back then. Seems I paid around $300 for it in 1978 and it was a good quality amp delivering 40watts/channel. Thats around a grand in today's $$.
Considering I can pick up an amp that delivers 5x100w, probably at much lower distortion levels, thats a heck of a bang for the buck!
