Yeah Ray, audio engineers have known for many years how to make amplifiers which amplify with audible transparency. One of the great things about the modern audio scene is the availability at very modest cost of receivers which are audibly flat from 20Hz-20KHz along with inaudibly low noise and distortion. Nothing audibly better than that is possible, regardless of cost. These days no competently designed unit exhibits a sonic coloration(i.e., a "sound").
Its refreshing to read this, and to have it supported on an audio forum after years of reading bunk about the sound coloration of what are largely transparent devices.
Don't tell anyone, but I'm using auto-electrical cable in my HT... three times the copper and half the price of even bulk "speaker" cable.
