How odd, I posted a response a half hour ago but it did not go through, must have hit "delete" rather than "send", oops!
To reiterate, I appreciate your response, and I suspect you have hit the nail on the head, it seems the Polks may have a limited dynamic range, for example I was playing Peter Gabriel's Up and it sounded beautiful except I had to lunge for the remote control and my daughter had to plug her ears after a dramatic shift in volume and the volume was only set at a a tiny jillionth of a smidgeon to begin with.
The ability to match dynamic range to source in an aesthetic manner I believe is a crucial element of HT and clearly music as well given the current example.
