The Emperor Has No Clothes!!

Not that the highs were "hot" to begin with but to me the dampened highs sound better YMMV

Heck guys I wouldn't concern yourselves with "looking silly." Many's the time when I am having a party at my home (my wife's friends usually) and the non-audiophiles gather around to ogle the system that they snicker when they see the "old fashioned" glowing tubes which they assumed had ended along about WW2. Most of them give me a look which seems to say, "Who is the anachronistic old fart?"

Laughing...