Oh how I wish Class D amps ...

Mike, If you have a large room that may be true. But if your room is average size (17' x 25' or thereabouts) then I would not be so certain. FWIW, the live transmissions over FM have to be compressed to fit the dynamic range of the medium.

I share your interest in dynamic range- its one of my pet peeves that I feel plague many systems I have heard.

If you really want to hear dynamic range you can actually do better with an LP. Here's a recommendation, a bit hard to find but one of the bigger dynamic ranges on LP, Verdi's Requiem, on the old RCA Soria set. Try track 2, Dies Irae and then see if you can play it at actual lifelike levels. I have seen that LP bring many 'state of the art' systems to their knees. It was recorded about 1959 or so and most systems still have trouble with it...

"Verdi's Requiem, track 2, Dies Irae" Oh yes, sir !!!!!
The biggest dynamic range I have experienced when (at holidays only) I use Sony early SACD where Eugine Ormandy conducts Philadelphia Orchestra.

I stand corrected - live FM transmissions are probably compressed, indeed. However, when I see them in my own listening room singing and talking and I am actually away hundreds of miles away and did not pay hundreds of dollars for ticket - my knees are shaken !!!! It is the best system in my life, system which transfers me there (or them to me - I don;t understand he difference) sometimes so realistic I almost cry...

You are great man Ralph! and you undertsand us "obsessed" as few can

Mike