All the adjectives used above and then some! Absolutely emaidel, keep it coming! I remember Lafayette and Pickering very well, but they just faded away from my conscienceness as time went by. I'm particularly interested in more of Onkyo's history and how Integra sprang from their arrogant and dis-honorable loins.

See Melvin? When presented in a non-pompous a$$ed manner, we here at AR are very receptive to the history, good and bad of audio.