I'll check that out! There are a pair of black ones here at a very reasonable price, but I placed some black thing here on the mantel as a test and can't do black.
I can get a sense of the total watts my system uses tomorrow. My wife works at home sometimes, as do I, and we are opt to keep some background music through comcast on at 30 or 40 db so the system can be on for 10 hrs per day, so its not like just 3 hrs at night max. Also my amp is pure Class A, so lots of watts. That said, it is a small Class A, not like some of the ones out there.
Orb looks cool, I like the idea of leveraging a high end company like Gallo, but yeah, I have heard good things about Orb. I have also heard things along the lines of the progression listed above, that sounds very reasonable.