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@thespeakerdude

I am busting your chops a bit but your claims have simply been outlandish, at least to me. I called out some other members in this same thread who immediately backed up their posts. Even @donavabdear was called out in this thread and he threw down (an Oscar even, having coffee with the stars, didn’t see that coming.)

You are still invited to my thread on inexpensive systems, it is truly a treasure trove of info on system matching.

@kota1 ,

You seem to fancy yourself an unofficial moderator. You pull the same childish stunt with everyone. @donavabdear I doubt in any way felt called out, and neither did anyone else. I don’t feel called out by you, I feel you are simply immature and trying to show off. Nothing I have said is even a slight bit outlandish, but given your lack of knowledge and experience, it may seem that way. I gave you some material to study so you could participate in a more advanced discussion. I hope you have brushed up, but how about this, instead of further derailing @donavabdear ’s threads with your antics, you stick to the topic being discussed and only the topic and leave your need to bully me or whatever it is you think you are doing in your head.

Nothing I have said is even a slight bit outlandish

Sonos is trying to hire someone.. who can't even assemble a system.

I gave you some material to study

LOL, see the above.

participate in a more advanced discussion.

I invited you to my other thread, come discuss already.

I don’t feel called out by you

Yeah, what do I know, I'm just an unofficial moderator right?

whatever it is you think you are doing 

In a thread on powered speakers I shared my 9.2.7 system... of powered speakers.

I shared how any member of this forum can build a matched system based on powered speakers on a budget of less than $10K to more than $100K ($200K if you include construction costs of the room).

If I posted about a tube sounding solid state amp its because I actually used it, on the same brand of speakers of the OP.

Please come to the other thread, there are many budget systems that have been painstakingly curated by members here (some even have pictures in the virtual system area)

@thespeakerdude All my components are balanced, but the subs have an AC hum my system runs off of 2x circuits both plugged into PS Audio P20 Power regenerators they send the power to DC then back to AC, seems good in theory. I've tried lifting grounds, no change measuring the voltage between neutral and ground nothing, what has worked is using an extension cord powering the subs from another part of the house and also using old ac filters like from monster and furman and such, but that's not a real fix. 

@kota1 I will check out the meridian systems but I'm happy with the Lyngdorf processor and the BHK 300 mono block amps it's just the BHK preamp that is noisy. I took it out of the system and used the Lyngdorf as the preamp, everything sounded very clean (other than the sub buzz) but it didn't sound nearly as good as with the tube preamp so I put it back in and am living with the slight noise, I can't hear it when the music I playing anyway. Tubes are like that old girlfriend that you hate but is so good looking  you can't let her go.  

The Focal Stella headphones are paired with the Naim Unity HP amp it's class A power and is all owned by the same company so I thought the headphones and amp would work together nicely, nope, way to untube like way to analytical and harsh, the dynamics hurt my ears, so Im using the headphone output of the BHK preamp. My idea of synergy in this case didn't work very well I just don't use the headphones much, but I would like to. 

I think I'm justo going to buy some nice speakers and subs for my upgrade, I don't think I can go active, other than the subs.

@kota1  The @thespeakerdude clearly works for a speaker company that doesn't allow social media so he's being careful not to give his credits. That's certainly understandable I'm very glad to learn from his experience as well as yours. Thank you both, you've been very helpful to me.