SPL - Pro Audio Blasphemy?

Very cool insights.I think having an entire rig of pro gear for home listening is not the way to go, but some areas could be helpful. As stated before, if you are going passive that would be the obvious area to acquire pro gear for. I remember linkwitz for his speakers uses very ordinary pro amps and PMC has bryston in them. I feel that some speakers, like for instance Harbeth, feel that amplification is cheap and abundant and it is there to amplify, nothing more.

Also, I think the 120v rails is confusing, because I think it is different running of 120v AC. Look at the Innerfidelity video on the Phonitor 2 at Newport, and the rep explains it. To paraphrase he says that most gear runs on 36v rails and that 120v rails gives you more head room and dynamic range. Sounds interesting.

Would the wide use of balanced connections and power conditioners be two areas where the pro side influenced the hifi side?

Sethlover you are on my wavelength!!! (or I'm on yours) I recently started using "affordable" Canare cables and they are awesome and reliable. I see you are using the Tascam in the same way I have been thinking about the SPL, which is inspiring. I feel that the pro gear manuf. wouldn't make a controller that changes the signal in any way or engineers would give them grief and not buy their gear.

Wolf Garcia, it's funny you mention the first watt, because the amp I am using is First Watt J2

Princka, I use JBL 4425 which I did not get at first and then it hit me with proper placement and listening position. This speaker is what made me investigate pro gear for some of the areas in my systems chain.

Ivan, I agree. I actually researched a little to find any power amps that had the 120v but I had little success.