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What's improved the most?
Your question doesn't change for the uber- rich vs. the peasants. It's always relative. Imo, it would be speakers just because they are after all the weakest link. 
Bass leaves after amp warms up?
Try the screws that are turned in crooked. Then call Dr. Phil. 
Listener fatigue: what does it really mean?
Ralph, I'm wondering if you've come across Susan Parker's 'Zeus' zero feedback impedance amplifier? I'd love to hear your thoughts on her design. She's had a following on DIY since she posted it in 2004. "Straight wire with gain", either tube or ss. 
Bass leaves after amp warms up?
Ooops. TO3 mosfets. 
It's raining cats and dogs
What makes you think they haven't been you salty old dog, you. Reaughhhh!!!! 
Listener fatigue: what does it really mean?
But what about 'bridged' amps? An issue I have just brought up on another thread in an unrelated? issue, 2nd order harmonics being cancelled out. 
Bass leaves after amp warms up?
Ralph, I have 4 Acoustat TNT amps just rebuilt by Roy Esposito. They are TO2 mosfet amps. I assure you they get better as they warm up. So much so that they are 'eerily' life like when in mono mode. I don't know what Roy did, but I have not experi... 
Bass leaves after amp warms up?
Al, Ralph, or Kijanki, have you read my previous post? 
What reviews do you trust if any?
How many grains of salt are there? 
Listener fatigue: what does it really mean?
Ralph, I gotta hear you tell me it's possible that odd ordered harmonic distortion in an ss amp can be low enough to render it inaudible with or without NFB. Please tell me it's so. I don't wanna buy a tube amp:) 
Bass leaves after amp warms up?
Interesting question I think Ralph may have hit on. I have lots of amps and they all exhibit the same behavior potentially. But I don't think it's limited to mosfets. I have both mosfet and bi-polar types and the same thing applies to both. This p... 
It's raining cats and dogs
I don't have that one, Geoff. But now that we've got you here, how about acquiring a cat or two yourself. Or do you already have one? You can't have too many allies, right? If yours don't anti up maybe we could team up. Imagine all us old guys'n g... 
need a new web site
What's the difference once they're separated, whether she stays or goes. The wife is still 'gone', isn't she?:) 
Chemistry question on aluminum
I've seen aluminum body work on cars corrode away exactly like rusty steel. The probable reason you don't see it to that extent on wheels is because they are made with alloys of aluminum, not pure. Same goes for audio component cases, I would thin... 
Listener fatigue: what does it really mean?
Again, what are we...chopped liver???BTW, well said, Ralph. However, harmonics of all sorts exist as you inferred whether they're distorted or not and therefore are included in any recording, are they not? So isn't it the degree of odd ordered har...