The Emotiva arrived, so I took a couple of hours yesterday, and tore the system down, and rewired with the XLR cables.

The XLR's have dropped the noise floor to the point where one needs to put one's ears about 3 inches from the tweeters to hear anything - and then it's a very faint hiss.

The lower noise floor has brought the dynamics out even further, with a more solid imaging on instruments and vocals.

Right now, this is still with the Marantz 7703 still in the system, along with the Yamaha CD-2100 SACD/CD player and 10 channels of ADA-1500 amplifiers.

The Marantz was left in for now, as I like to swap one thing at a time into the system. The Emotiva will go in either later today or next weekend, and experiments will start with Dirac Live.