Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em?

Batch - What Frazuer said, +1. I ran them plenty, and at all levels, during the trial period, and the changes were significant and obvious. FWIW, I don't think break-in, especially for loudspeakers, has much to do with "getting used to" the new speakers. Ask John Strohbeen or any speaker designer: The various materials in a loudspeaker, from the glues to the cone material to the caps in the crossovers all get excersized during the break in process, and as they flex, they eventually settle in to sounding as they were designed to. But fresh out of the box, the materials will not produce the intended sound.

Rbf1138: The Signal Cables would be a great buy, and at that price, easy to resell if you want to upgrade. I'd suggest picking them up, then, over time, audition cables, ones that can be returned, verses the Signal Cables, and see if you hear an improvement worth paying up for.

Bondman,
Thanks for the info. And you'll be happy to know I ended up taking your & Map's advise and dumped the vintage Kenwood for powering the 2.2000s and replaced it with a Valve Audio Predator -- which made a huge difference.

Mapman, Bondman and others, I have a serious question. I have a turntable, many CDs, some excellent SACDs, a top notch FM receiver, and thousands of mp3's, mostly ripped at 196 kps or higher. Yet, 80 % of my listening is done on vinyl. Is it that I'm just an old guy who cut his teeth on vinyl and I'm into nostalgia or is there something unique about my setup with vinyl? Keep in mind that I took a nearly 30 year hiatus from vinyl until I set up my new system.

Finally getting my rig setup. Awaiting Kimber 4VS cables and using cheap wire right now.

While music from the turntable and computer sound great, I'm having a hard time with that "ghost center channel" for television, movies, etc. It just sounds like its coming from two speakers on either side of the tv.

I'll upload a picture of my setup this afternoon for more precise help here.

Batch,

Glad things are working out.

Carja,

HArd to say. I'm an older guy too (52) and leaned towards vinyl as well until I went with a NEtwork Music Player (first Roku SOundbridge, now Squeezebox TOuch) + music server. Now I spend most of my time with the Touch/music server.

I still have a lot of records that I would love to listen to if I had the time to muck with records but I have a huge backlog of things to listen to on my music server alone that will take me a long time to get through, so I only on occasion spin the vinyl when I get the urge.

I do tend to lean towards the vinyl for older vintage recordings and classical music in general but I also listen to a lot of newer stuff these days so that makes a difference.