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Originally Posted by jyl

I do like the power amp, thank you! Remarkable how much better the 901s sound driven by the power amp instead of by the integrated amp (not receiver, I misspoke). I’m thinking of replacing the integrated amp with a preamp, so that I can use the integrated amp somewhere else.

Ohm speakers look very interesting. I’ve never had a chance to hear them. Are they very sensitive to room placement?

My wife objects to the 901s because she considers them “huge”. I guess her frame of reference is a portable Bluetooth speaker or something. She wants me to get a satellite-sub system. Not that she calls it that, her term is “little speakers that you don’t notice”. I’ve tried to point out that the 901s can double as cocktail tables, she says they are much larger than needed for a cocktail table, and why is “that” here (gesturing at stack of turntable and amps) and why do we have all these wires? Also (she’s getting up to speed now) why can’t we hear the same music everywhere in the house? And can’t you turn it down?

So I need a system where Coltrane plays through a mute, Jones just tinkles his cymbals, and Garrison occasionally taps his bass with his little finger, all in the other room while cocktail glasses float in mid-air.

I’m going to the office.

I had some decent equipment when I met my wife. My missus was similar, too loud, too much stuff laying around, too many wires. I now have a nice pair of headphones and stream from my phone.