Need advice from the gurus.

@jl35 What did you move on to from the Gato?  I forgot to mention my sub, it's a Martin Logan Dynamo 800X.  I inherited that from my father as well.  Seems to work fine with the Gato and Magnepans.

@mwh777 Interesting tactic... I'll give it a go.

So ChatGPT recommended the following:

Final Thoughts: What Would I Do?

1. Stick with the Magnepan LRS+ if you love vocals and soundstage. Maybe keep the Omegas for a different flavor.

2. Consider trying a more powerful amp for the LRS+ at some point, but your Gato is doing well.

3. If you want more midrange texture, consider swapping the Topping DAC for an R2R DAC.

4. Sell or store the speakers you don’t use (Kef R3, GS20?) and the Cherry amps unless you plan to get a preamp.

Quite remarkable.  It didn't pick up on the Cherry amps being 800 watts at 2 ohms but that's ok. I may find a decent balanced pre-amp to use with the Cherry amps and a R2R DAC and see what that gets me.  I do like the Gato and will be keeping it regardless. 

Yeah Jason, you have to take it with a grain of salt but it's still pretty cool.

@jl35 I'm redoing my room soon and will keep that in mind.  The fuse and jumper mods might be worth looking into, thank you for the suggestion.

@jl35 I was just thinking - why not just bypass the fuse altogether if you're just going to replace it with a silver slug?  Wouldn't nothing be better still?

@deep_333 Lrs+ without a good servo subwoofer would be an incomplete speaker and it needs a sub’s help all the way up to around 200 hz. A pair of rythmik Fm8 subs set up on the front stage, integrated correctly should do the job.

I have a Martin Logan Dynamo 800x sub but it’s not a servo sub.  It stilldoes a decent job but I haven’t heard a servo sub to compare it to.

As far as selling my speakers... I can do that.  I need the space anyway.  I've been looking at the Mofi speakers since they came out... they look like something I would enjoy.

@gano 

@jeffbij 
This is per 6moons regarding the AMP-150, I assume the "AE" version is identical.

"The input PCB sits near the back plate and sports NEC relays and an analog BB PGA2320 resistor-ladder IC. As a single-ended circuit, the XLR i/o ports are convenience items de/symmetrized by a TL07a chip."

@jeffbij 

Do you think there is any appreciable difference between a true balanced circuit and Gato’s implementation?  I assume as long as the circuits are well designed it should be good regardless.