Wow. It would be nice to see some pics. The lines on this lineage of a system must be like the planets alinned. If lunch was precise and dinner was musical then "linner" would be the perfect musical feast.
I enjoyed your thread too; you should feel proud and not feel guilty for $$$ spent... you have just saved yourself and your wife from "mediocrity" in music reproduction, as Peter Shaffer might have said! Try Emma Kirby's/Hogwood's rendition of Mozart's Requiem and you will know that your decision was absolutely the right one!
Alas, let us hear no more nonsense of downgrading - this is Audiogon, after all!