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Home Theater speakers....what to buy? ?
Check out the Martin logans! 
can i have a killer 2 channel AND HT setup at once
No! Stick with dedicated HT room and two channel room unless you want to spend lots of money! By combining the two, you will have to give something up as the room set up is always the problem. If money is no object you can obtain both! With the eq... 
How to Biwire?
It's better to bi-wire how ever it's better to run a single run of high grade wire than running bi-wire with low end wire! I have paradigm speakers for my HT set up and I run single runs of high grade wire with high grade jumper wires instead of t... 
3 Dedicated lines into 1
Yes, it would be the same as a cheater plug, as I have to do this with a Acurus amp 250 watts. I have multi acurus amps in my HT set up and they all hum so I droped the ground on the power cords and all quiet now, so much better than the crappy ch... 
3 Dedicated lines into 1
First thing to do is take the monster out and plug all componets into dedicated lines, then take a cheater plug and use on amp only, should solve your problem and if it does reconnect everything back into monster.Cheater plugs are crap so a better... 
A warm and rich sounding power cord
Try a PS Audio Lab, you can pick them up for around $225 used and they work great with power plants.Dont try to change sound with power cords or any wire. If you are looking for this you may consider changing componets then work on wires! Good Luck 
Anyone with experience on the PS Audio XStream IC
I have Xstream single ended for all componets with there digital cable along with Labs Power cords on all componets, five Ultimate Outlets and Power Plant.The Xstream inteconnects are great cables, they dont get in the way, Sound stage is huge alo... 
advice on brightness
Dont try to fix your system with wires, first of all you may want to look at some different speakers, then some nice speaker wire. Next start to work on front end and try to wire intire system with same brand wire as much as possible! If your room... 
Mono block suggestions
I run two Classe 25 power amps for my Martin Logans and my system sounds great. You can pick up a pair of Classe CA-100 and run them mono 200 watts per channel into 4 ohms, Classe amps and Logans work nice together. 
What kind of power wakes up electrostatic speakers
I have owned electrostats for around 12 years and found they all like lot's of power, they DONT do well with entry level high power amps. I have Martin Logan Ascents and driving them with two Classe 25 power amps in mono about 1000 watts per chann... 
B&K vs Adcom – opinions please
Here is a better way to go, pick up a Classe CA-100 amp for around $650 and Classe CP-35 for $400At about a $1000 this would be more musical than any Adcom or B&K could ever be! and for a few hundred more you could get a Classe CA200! check it... 
Best used dac under $2000
You can't go wrong with these, Theta, Audio Research, Classe Audio, Cal Audio Labs, PS Audio all these can be found for around $700 on up 
Pre-amp suggestions
Hi,Check out Audio Research or Classe they make nice preamps and you can get a great deal on a used one,Classe CP-45 or CP-60 both are great, Audio Research LS-3 or LS-12 both are great preamps and good price on the used market, also BAT makes som...