Dallas or Texas-based audio companies

Let's get back to Texas.  Yes Raven is a Texas company.  Please do not judge the Raven speakers by the price tag until you have heard them  Op...give James Connel a call.  He lives in the Dallas area.  I am sure he can arrange a demo of the amps and speakers together. I was able to listen with James.  They are very good speakers.  It will be worth your time to call James.

Why would I put the Moab on podiums?

For the same reason you would put any speaker on Podiums: they sound even better! Not that it's necessary. I was seriously impressed with mine right out of the box.  

From what I am able to gather, Moabs are close enough to Ulfberht that if mounted on Podiums they would be quite a bit better. Total cost of Moabs plus Podiums is less than Ulf's, but will sound better. That's what I was getting at.

Another +vote for Silent Source cabling offered via John Fort Audio.

Happy Listening!

@millercarbon when you say podiums I'm guessing you mean Seismic podiums?  At first I thought you just meant raised up off the floor.

Townshend Podiums. Seismic Podiums I guess they are called officially. What I use. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 Tried a lot of other stuff, nothing even comes close. Equivalent to a significant component upgrade. One guy, might have been ozzy, had Iso-Acoustics Gaia, went to Podiums, said it was a significant upgrade. Well it should be for the price differential! lol! See the recent reviews.