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Thank you Gentlemen,

"I would offer some of my commentary of the subject. The very first thing you need to find out if your audio anti-Brucknerism has natural or audio nature."

Of course any input you can offer will be gladly considered.  Yes, of course, I have gone through cycles where I don't care to hear certain pieces.  It usually ends when, for whatever reason, I just need to hear it again.  I haven't really been able to figure out exactly why this is, but, of course, it has nothing to do with the system and everything to do with me.  It is certainly possible that I do not yet fully "get" Bruckner (Wagner is still a mystery).

"Gould was such a great talker!  I love listening to him on just about any subject.  But don't let this stop you from digging into it, if you want to "fix" it."

Ditto.  Gould was an amazing musician as well as an amazing person.  It is a shame that he couldn't do more.  That's a rediculous and terribly selfish thing to say, really, but anyone who could converse like that and be so grippingly interesting could probably also write quite effectively; literature, naturally, and in his case, music also.  I think that one of the best things he did was his attempt to discourage clapping.

"LBJ, there are bound to be periods when, and plenty of varying reasons why, one just is not up for big music;"

True, but I don't quite think that's what is going on.  I always (almost) love big music and big sounding performances.  I have been trying to play Von Karajan's 1971 Bruckner 7th, particularly because of Karajan's incredible ability to make the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra play so expansively and so hugely.  I just played Dvorak's 9th "New World" Symphony with Rafael Kubelik leading Berlin PO (a performance that is really quite important to me) and the system did not reveal the size of the first movement well enough.  The Largo was phenominal.  There were deficiencies, of course, as there always are, but I could not be compelled to care.  The expression was just as I have wanted to have it...Except...At the big fortissimo at around the 9 minute mark, it was wonderfully loud, but not properly big.  I want it to tower over the world, not to "be loud."

"I can't remember if you mentioned your room particulars, or if you've said anything about BEP and/or its remediation in your system."

I haven't.  I had previously been listening in a room that is about 65 feet wide by 32 feet deep with 14 foot ceilings at a far-field position.  I once set it up for near-field and was intrigued enough to move into a room that is exactly 11'1" by 11'1" by 8'1".  My Ears are exactly 5'11" from the speakers.  They are time-aligned teardrop shaped 3-ways (probably soon to be 4-way to solve a fairly moderate mid-bass deficiency).  In the previous location, they were trained to behave very well when portraying size.  Here, things have not been quite so easy.  They are postioned to within a red twat-hair's breadth of DPOLS (quite impossible in the old room).  Electricity is untreated, so...you know how it is.  For my Dvorak performance, it was not too crazy.

Anyway, I thank you all as cordially as I can and look forward to expanding on this rediculous little expedition of mine.  Night, night.

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