Folks, thankyou most kindly for your comments.

E-Stat, that is a most intriguing description. Hmmm I guess I've auditioned several
brands, components of various price ranges in my time. However the sad part of it is
that the overall setup, the room, listening environment are all completely different.

It's a bit of a toss up though, at one hand, there's the concept of diminishing returns, how
much more do you get for the extra buck, $1000, $10000 ? However some can justify
that the extra money adds to the improvements that they need.

I really wish I could hear music through all of your setups everyone. I'd like to take in
the new perspectives.

What I do know is our hifi systems are more than just a hobby, or in our blood. It's a
constant project that with time, our plans to reach the ultimate listening environment
matures. We all find new music to test our systems, we learn of slowly new developing
technologies.

Since the High Def market has taken off to new heights, what new formats are we going
to look forward to ? Can't get much more detail back than "lossless" formats. Perhaps
12.1, 13.1, eventually we would solve the problem by just living in a lighthouse, or
one day get that new 360.1 receiver and a HDBBDBBDBDBDVDVDVD (from Red vs Blue)
player.

Well I waited 10 years to get myself a replacement amp, was well worth the wait.

It was just out of reach of my normal budget, but I felt it was worth stretching it a little
just for this. My ultimate goal of reaching audio heaven got that much closer.

Perhaps ignorance is bliss, to not really experience the best money can buy, or the
very high end stuff, will prevent one from throwing so much more money into the next
upgrade :P