Musician vs. audiophile

Hi All, Well... I appreciate everyone's input, from family counseling to power at my 110v outlets!  I'll take a first crack at delivering technical info so questions are answered;  The Power amp is a solid state VK-250, fed by a VK-3IX with Sovtek tubes and no Bat Pak. Cabling from pre to power amp would be Nordost.  Could these long (2 meter) flat silver (Ag) play into flat/dull performance at low volume?  FYI, I used them to drive my Sophia 3s and Geoff Poor (BAT) recommended the massively improved Audioquest CV-8s.  So.. Could driving my power amp with these be a weakness?  Onward, The speakers are in a decent location each spaced 1 meter away from side walls and 3 meters from a irregular back wall, room in front of them is large and very broken up.  I've dialed in the angle and distances.  When listening anywhere near a central listening perspective and moderately high volume (above 20 on power amp) the presence,sound stage and fidelity is amazing, however, no
punch and bass thickness without the JL's involved.  Thanks for now all, I'll be studying input with more detail and return with specific responses to valued posts.  Happy New Year

Hi crazyeddie,
 I replied to czarivey earlier in this thread that there had to be some musicians out there who happily owned Wilson speakers (law of averages). Thanks for the confirmation 😊
Charles 

charles1dad
Hi crazyeddie,
I replied to czarivey earlier in this thread that there had to be some musicians out there who happily owned Wilson speakers (law of averages).

Musicians own Wilsons? Whoa! That pretty much proves my whole point!

Just kidding 😬

I have a friend who studied music in University and composes classical pieces.  When he hears a classical piece of music, he appreciates how it was composed, the methods used by the composer in writing this piece. When I talk about HiFi he covers his ears, when I explained about PRAT he thought I was utterly mad.  We both like music also classical music, if I like a particular piece of music its purely from the music, if he likes the same piece of music, its because of the music and how it was written. He is not so concerned how the music is presented (HiFi) but much more interested as to the music itself and how it was composed.  Often he would say 'notice how the composer expanded on that one note or theme'  I sometimes think about famous musicians of all genres, apart from the recording equipment used in studios do they posses HiFi at home. Does Paul McCartney have a state of the art Ayre system at home or does Mick Jagger have a Naim statement at home or are musicians not so bothered about HiFi...?

Repeter,
I believe most if not all BAT power amplifiers have input impedances of 100K ohms. It seems this shouldn’t be an issue matching their sibbling preamps regarding Al’s earlier caution. You'd think the manufacturer would make these family components compatible.  I could be wrong in this assumption. 
Charles