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Will an Amp change improve my system ?
Your system seems already thoughtfully worked through with very good quality components. The Freya+ is an excellent preamp in the kind of system you have, it affords you three different processing modes, two with gain, one with tube gain and tube ... 
Will an Amp change improve my system ?
"I like my current system and wonder if an amp change would improve it significantly ?"   Probably not. If you are using the Schiit front end components and already are using the tube section on your Freya+, adding more tube amp effect or Class-... 
Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative”
McIntosh MA 8950.  
Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative”
Heaven-11 Billie.    
Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative”
Sugden A21SE Signature.  
Enough is Enough
You are asking a barber if you need a haircut.  
Seller Question - I need UPS to come get these large speaker boxes - how to manage that?
UPS has a LTL freight subsidiary (they bought Overnite). Check their website for their range of services. I know at one point they would collect, pack, and pallet and ship large items. Costs are determined by volume, number of pallets required, we... 
Help me identify an amp
Looks like an old Dynaco ST-70K kit.  
Seeking speakers under $3K for 10x12 ft room and driven by 20wpc tube amp
Gareents: the Omega Super Alnico Monitors are full-range ("single driver") and a similar floorstander variant, the Junior Alnico XRS, each 95dB sensitive and each at or below the OPs specified price. He could drive them with modest-power tube amps... 
Bose buys McIntosh
If Bose wanted to place a marker solidly in the high end North American audio market, McIntosh and Sonus Faber would be a very solid start. Both brands are well respected and enjoy good shares of their (admittedly) small market. Neither need help ... 
Seeking speakers under $3K for 10x12 ft room and driven by 20wpc tube amp
Or consider JBL 4349 (91dB, dual compression driver horn, 12 in bass, front port) and either an AR i/50 (50 W PP 6550s) or a Sugden A21 SE Signature (SS, class A 30W) or a Peachtree Carina GaN. The 4349s are excellent at low volumes and at high.  
Help Select an True Bookshelf Speaker
Vandersteen VLR-CT, non-ported. Studio Electric M4, non-ported. ELAC Reference UniFi UBR62, front-ported, ELAC Debut DBR 62 front-ported. Range of prices $600-ish the pair (maybe less black Friday) to $3600/pair.    
More potential bad news for some big names...
Where are Pioneer, Sansui, Kenwood, TEAC, Nakamichi, Onkyo, Technics, JVC, Sony, all once significant in the mass market now become either niche producers or moved out of home audio entirely. Audio just isn't the same market as in decades past. St... 
Seeking speakers under $3K for 10x12 ft room and driven by 20wpc tube amp
Omega Speaker Systems Super Alnico Monitor.  
Bose buys McIntosh
Bose is certainly innovative outside the small audiophile space. Their automotive system brand is well-placed in the mass market, which isn't a bad place to be. They have made a significant bid in the consumer home audio market against Sonos. Thei...