In response to Tubegroover's comments, I would like to add the following. I recently sent my P3-A bach to Perp Tech to fix a documented problem with the Crystal chip set. I bring this up because the tonal characteristic (which was amazingly smooth AND musical) right out of the box suddenly turned harsh and fatiguing - this happened immediately after I heard "clipping" sounds from the system. I was told by the Technical Director of PT, Jon Lane (an extremely helpful gentleman) that this was because of the problem with the Crystal unit which had just then been documented. They expect a fix within the first week of November. OK, the reason for this long-winded passage - Tubegroover, your experience MAY be due to this problem. I do agree that the BC is amazingly musical - I just feel, that based on my experience with the P3-A BEFORE it clipped, it sounded amazingly smooth and non-fatiguing - and I have solid state electronics as well as metal-dome tweeters - in other words a pretty forward-sounding system to begin with.
