Robby, please do not get rid of the speakers! They are quite special, and your describing them as "glorious" is accurate.
I suggest you try an Acoustic Research TDS202 unit in your system. This little gem doubles the volume of a system, with little to no sound degradation. The whole thing is quite unbelievable, as it is passive. Personally, I find to it to hurt the sound in a very small manner. However, two of my audiophile buddies actually find it to do the opposite, and improve the sonics. Whichever is true, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks.
My friend who has a low power tube amp that we only found two speakers that could be driven comfortably has had a quantum level of choices open up to him via the TDS202. In brief, it produces the same volume at the amp's 40% setting as it previously did at 90%.
I suggest you try an Acoustic Research TDS202 unit in your system. This little gem doubles the volume of a system, with little to no sound degradation. The whole thing is quite unbelievable, as it is passive. Personally, I find to it to hurt the sound in a very small manner. However, two of my audiophile buddies actually find it to do the opposite, and improve the sonics. Whichever is true, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks.
My friend who has a low power tube amp that we only found two speakers that could be driven comfortably has had a quantum level of choices open up to him via the TDS202. In brief, it produces the same volume at the amp's 40% setting as it previously did at 90%.