I'll note a couple of things.
1) James mentioned at the end of the integrated page that the Trends unit was being run wide open. It was running at it's limits, but not with the volume control all the way up or something. It was able to product peaks near the 80db level in a big room with fairly efficient speakers, but we couldn't have asked more out of it without it giving out and compression.
My issues with it when I had it here was that I really couldn't get my heavy speaker cables, with Vampire solid Copper spades, under the binding post and still be able to get the RCA's on. If you are going to pick one of these units up be prepared to use a speaker cable with banana plugs.
2) These things really sound different with different power cords.
I was first auditioning one of the integrated amps here in my system and I started with the stock power cord. The sound stage was a bit two dimensional. Everything was a bit stacked up in the middle and compressed. The bass was a little on the light side too and sluggish. This was even plugged into my Dodd Audio balanced power supply.
I thought that this thing should sound a lot better than this. It was still earlier on in the burn in stages but still it was kind of ridiculous.
So I powered it down, unplugged it, and pulled one of the power cables from one of my nearby Dodd Audio tube amps, plugged it in, and power it back up.
This was a custom cable made by Dave Elledge. It's a 12 gauge cable, heat treated, cryo treated, the works... a great cable.
The change was greater than anything I have ever swapped power cords on. The sound stage opened up. There was space between instruments and vocals. The bass tighten up and easily played lower. This was not subtle.
I highly recommend good power cables with these integrated amps. It makes a world of difference.
There was also a slip up in the A/B comparisons on integrated amps.
All amps were keep powered up on a standard wall outlet and sharing a large power strip. When on deck each integrated was plugged into its own dedicated wall plug that was a dedicated circuit that had nothing else in the house on it.
The slip up was when one of the integrated amps was played for one song (the first song) still plugged into the common circuit and power strip.
We listened through the first song, then Art said, wait a minute, do over (or something). It was powered down, then back up and we heard the same song again on the same integrated. It didn't even sound the same. The difference was NOT subtle. We were asking afterwards what happened and what the deal was. We were all a bit surprised at how much difference the dedicated circuit made.