Gallaine, your approach to my blurbs on this site is way too Jesuit for me. I have contradicted myself in the past, and certainly will in the future. In this case, though, I think I have been pretty consistent. What I have a hard time with is what appears, to me at least, as a free for all. Any thing that is exaggerated becomes insignificant. I don't wish to bore anyone with discourse on defining what the word "HUGE" means in the context of audio systems. In my book that should be reserved for something like the difference between a Pioneer 35w receiver of '70s vintage feeding a pair of Dynaco A-25 speakers and, just for sake of argument, a Musical Fidelity amp driving Pro Acs. That two similarly rated, high power, high current amplifiers, of recent design could exhibit "HUGE" differences is beyond my comprehension. That they have some kind of signature that can be heard on some passages, of some music, while driving a certain pair of speakers, I agree; more than that leaves me somewhat perplexed. Now how much someone is willing to pay for any such subtle improvement, I am not prepared to say. I know how much I am willing to pay. I also know that I won't pine for that last little bit of improvement, real or imagined, that I may be missing by not having the flavour of the week component. There's another thread asking whether audiophiles lie to themselves at times. I think it is more prevalent than we care to admit. Let's not take a very incremental improvement as a revolution and, worse yet, any change between one component and another, as an improvement. If someone can't provide me with a somewhat logical explanation as to why is stuff sounds better, I simply lose interest. Isn't my fault, I'm Cartesian, I guess. Does not mean it doesn't exist, just means my ear/brain processor don't get it. Call it my loss, your gain and let's leave it at that. Goodnight.