Eric. You are going to love how the A1400-A makes the music sound more natural and transparent. Classical music tunes are usually the most carefully engineered recordings with the highest dynamic range. If you want to "be there" the way the engineer intended, you need to be able to cleanly reproduced those peaks and transients. We keep talking about dynamic headroom and I remembered an excellent article which Alan wrote that I highly recommend reading again. I especially like the way he describes how important dynamic headroom is when reproducing piano and orchestra.

http://www.axiomaudio.com/dynamicheadroom.html

http://www.axiomaudio.com/power.html

John