I'm looking to replace my late 80's Paradigm monitor speakers. These Energy monitors look well reviewed and are within my price range. It's a small room. Will these likely match well with my Arcam amplifier?

Much thanks for any and all advice!

Scott

Not sure I understand reviews and discussions of how a lowered noise floor helps so much. That is, of course it helps, but, typically, isn't a given reviewer's (or forum poster's) system pretty doggone free of background noise to start with?

I found this site the other day, very informative.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/acoustic/revtim.html#c4

How expensive do I need to be with speaker wire. I can get 14/2 and 12/2 at Lowe's and $4/ft. stuff from a local home theater company. I'll be using KEF 107 speakers and, maybe, B&W 802 speakers

I can get these used from an acquaintance. Any comments?

Hola, JA.

I've been through the Parasound Halo 2 review a couple of times, and wanted to ask a "woody" question.

Do you think there is an 'objective' measurement on this piece that would correlate well with its superior soundstaging?

I tried thinking about channel seperation, but most preamps have better channel seperation 'skills' than almost all recordings do.

I was taken by your comment that even mono recordings had more space, which would also argue against channel seperation being responsible for its superior performance.