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As I've written before, any halfway decent amp will sound the same as another in a blind test, but most people do not listen blind. I do not give recommendations based on placebo. Instead, I recommend that you listen to what you want to buy before hand. Typical recommendations in that price range are the schiit stack and O2, although you aren't going to find those in a hifi shop. There are also capable chinese amps/dacs that come up on Massdrop fairly frequently (eg, Topping, SMSL, Aune, etc). Of these, I think schiit is the easiest to return (w/ 15% restocking fee) if you end up not liking it. Personally, I would buy on features, aesthetics, and build quality.
Again, as a practical matter, either the equipment is working and it sounds the same, or if it doesn't sound like everything else then it is by definition broken. Note that most tube amps do not distort audibly, and even an amp with ~100Ohm output impedance (eg, OTL tube amps) will have a fairly mild effect on the HD6xx and no effect on FR on the HE4xx.
For more information, I wrote a fairly long explanation of technical details here: https://www.massdrop.com/talk/2672/amps-and-da-cs/1881426
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