Now the real kicker. As a musician, I'm keen on phrasing certain ways to emotionally reach out to my audience in performance. Never before has equipment been able to transcend those live performance elements until I tried you’re A-100. Until your Trio amp, there was a slight veil over the music, kind of like a photo of a scene instead of the real thing. (By the way, you did this with Solid State and digital at that. How? I thought only tubes were "magical" that way!) It just duplicates the best or worst of any source going into it. The Trio passes the signal from source components like a chameleon reading the signal. What did this do for my wife? (not an audiophile mind you...) I couldn't tear her form my listening seat! She also said she had never heard the system sound so live and REAL before. She's a music teacher, so she knows good when she hears it. I played a recording of acoustic guitar and clarinet on "Ave Maria", and her remark as she listened was..."it makes me want to cry it's so real sounding. I feel the musicians and their physical efforts as they are playing... it's so much like being there!" I guess that could rank as one of the best compliments you folks as masters of your art could receive.