Jim...wicked looking system - i love your ls26, but, perhaps I hold a personal bias! I very much appreciated your response to my discussion regarding SE and Balanced ICs between the preamp and my moon supernova. I took your advice and used a low gain setting for balanced and a medium gain for SE - there's really not that much of a diffence - it's wider, more dimensional....but, at what added cost. Again, thanks for your input....cheers.