Jim, if your system is tube based, as mine is, maybe you should consider a non-tube headphone setup as an alernative?
My Audible Illusion,CJ,meadowlark system, sounds great but is far from neutral. My headphone system a Grado RA-1,sR 80, panasonic portable is the exact opposite - quick, very detailed and highly addictive. Both satisfy certain musical fixes I have at any given time and now I feel no need for to try and make my main system "perfect". As an added bonus It is truly portable. That being said, I've heard the wheatfield, and antique labs setups with senns and beyerdyamics and they were both very good.
Have fun.
Pete
My Audible Illusion,CJ,meadowlark system, sounds great but is far from neutral. My headphone system a Grado RA-1,sR 80, panasonic portable is the exact opposite - quick, very detailed and highly addictive. Both satisfy certain musical fixes I have at any given time and now I feel no need for to try and make my main system "perfect". As an added bonus It is truly portable. That being said, I've heard the wheatfield, and antique labs setups with senns and beyerdyamics and they were both very good.
Have fun.
Pete