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I'll see if I can figure that out on my parents' camera. I can't believe I have to learn photography for the sake of my audio hobby.

Seriously, I didn't think ahead when I bought the A1400-8. I should have foreseen the responsibility. D'oh.

It's like the saying goes: You do not seek out great deeds; rather great deeds are thrust upon you.

I think I'm going to leave the close-up shots of the amp up to Axiom. The pictures I had taken are garbage, and now I have the unit actually in the entertainment stand, along with the preamp. There still isn't enough clearance above the preamp to make me feel good about ventilation, but thankfully the vents are at the back of the unit, and I can push it far enough back to stick out the rear of the stand. The stand is away from the wall a fair amount, so I'm thinking there will be enough ventilation now. It doesn't look great, but at least it gets those units off of my floor.

I'll take new pictures of my setup sometime this week, so at least you'll have that. I'll post them in the old thread about my system with the old photos. Not a lot about the layout has changed, just equipment.

I'd better take the pictures today, with Halo 3 coming out Tuesday.

We were all expecting your full report today. Hopefully you'll be more productive over the next few days and won't disappoint us again .

Really.

We expected more of you. For shame. If you do not comply within 1 week, you will be receiving a "Letter of Concern". Thank you.

John, even for those who can hear 20KHz at less than an extremely high sound pressure level(probably very few of us)a rolloff of about 0.6dB at that frequency would be inaudible compared to a totally flat response to that frequency.

You're right but I understood his question to mean "Other amps are more flat than the A1400. Why isn't the A1400 as flat?".

John and Mojo, thank you for taking the time to reply. I am by no means an expert on any of this. Human hearing ranges between 20Hz to 20kHz and lowest audible sound is somewhere between 0 and 4 dB. At the 20kHz, the roll-off by 0.6-0.7 is very unlikely to be audible to us. However, there are some people (see Stereophile's review of the Ayre C-5xe universal player) ,who feel that a filter that provides a flatter curve may not be audible in itself, but offers a better time-domain performance, particularly regarding the accuracy of stereo imaging. In any case, I am sure that my untrained ears still cannot tell the difference. Mojo indicated that the experts will find A1400's performance to be "exceedingly excellent". I have no doubt that this is indeed the case, and I am looking forward to reading the reviews by such experts.

John