@fastfreight I did read; you bet. Thanks. (Page three for you cut to the chase types) I will not steal your thunder/thoughts and post a spoiler here.

Chaining the JCat and Tempus goes against the shibboleth of less is more but I don't doubt you either. 

I was impressed with the very cordial and cicil tone on What's Best.

@wsrrsw 

I concur with your opinion of less is more, one of the reason I didn’t go crazy with tweaks in my system despite of what I’ve read here and other forums. IME, higher quality implementation wins over multitude of tweaks. 

@lalitk Bingo; but I suspect that given so many up have less than perfect rooms (the most important and perhaps most neglected component) if if it sounds great  for a person (he, she, they, them, x, xemself (saw that one last week)) then that's the ticket. The JCat and Grimm for me were the Brass rings. Make the Grimm a gold one. Next up for me is a try out of Edgar Y. Choueiri's BAACH system. Box is waiting to be unpacked.

@wsrrsw 

I just read the primer on EYC BAACH system. Very interesting, hope to hear your feedback soon. 

A very good review has just been published here: https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/re...views-digital-cable/network-acoustics-tempus/

I absolutely agree to the findings and comparisons described there.