I ran a decware se84b with la scalas to great satisfaction for five years. The little amp is very, very good musically. This combination however needed an equally good source to produce the goods. I started with a tube rotel CD player, moved to a njoe tJoeb and tried a couple of Dacs including meridian and audio alchemy. The missing link was provided by a California audio labs aria CD player. Faultless in detail, rhythm, dynamics, huge soundstage, and a beautifully rhythmic bass, electric or upright. And it would go loud enough to wake the pesky neighbour up after midnight. She shouldn't have built her house with her bedroom facing my living room were the music system lived.
The aria died a natural death from old age and I could never regain that magic.
forever regret they day I sold the la scalas due to moving to a smaller house. Am now running the decware Superzen with fully tweaked klf20s -- braced, crites crossover updates, titanium tweeter and mid-horn diaphragms -- with decware's tube output tascam CD player featuring an iPod dock. Sometime use a dddac 24 chip Dac. Quite close to the decware,la scala, aria combo except to the soundstage.