Belles upgrade??

Hi - Thanks for the suggestion, will consider. One of the biggest curiosities I have in this thread is whether I would get big gains in performance by going with similar monoblocks as opposed to stereo amp? Klaus from Odyssey states you get biggest performance improvement with his gear by going to monos versus upgrading his stereo amps.   

Again, thanks for all the info and suggestions, will research further. Soix, to answer your question, areas that I think I would like to see improvement are richness and dynamics, and also noise reduction. I know the tubed pre tends to bring in some noise on its own and I will be upgrading my wiring situation in the near future, which should also make a big improvement, but the review implied running monos was also a huge factor. Does anyone concur on that point? I ran an ARC 100.2 a little while ago, every other piece was the same. It seemed more dynamic and sounded pretty amazing, but it was a good bit noisier.