Hoots:

I'm glad to hear that your system is sounding better to you. I didn't want to offend, so I refrained from saying something that you mentioned in the above post... The Klipsch are somewhat bright, designed as they were with ca. 1977 electronics. On one hand, the "t.h.d." camp, listened mostly through speakers with dome tweeters that had only moderate power response in the upper octaves. No surprise that those electronics sound 'bright and grainy', and the speakers 'voiced' using those components sounded lifeless when used with some of the "high end" front ends of the day! On the other hand, I heard my first pair of K-Horns in about 1979 (or thereabouts, if memory serves) on (again, I think) an Audio Research SP-6 & D-60(all tube). This was the most life-like sound I'd ever heard from a stereo system! Later we found out that THOSE electronics were rolled-off in their upper-octave response due to the limitations imposed by the tubes of the day. Whatever. All I know is that the additive and subtractive euphonies synergistically produced a gorgeous, if guilty, kind of magic! Enjoy your tubes AND your 1050, as do I. Oh, and thanks for being the catalyst which brought me back in time to when 'the magic' held powerful sway over me. Jeff.