This is Patrick who posted over on the Bottlehead board. I swapped out my Paramours for my Scott 299B and the sound is lovely. Better than lovely, actually. It's the most lifelike sound I've ever had in my system! I'm going to post a lengthy review once I've spent a good several weeks with the new speakers. I LOVE them.

As to my Paramours: Doc B. suggested that perhaps they weren't compatible witih the Paramours. From Till's experience however that doesn't make any sense -- and in fact I now realize that I'd been having trouble with the Paramours for a while now, but just never attributed any of it to the amps. (Was looking at equipment support, cable and speakers.)

I'm SURE this is not a defect in the Paramours -- when I first built them they sounded wonderful with my old speakers. The thing is, I modded these amps to within an inch of their lives (see my post on Bottlehead for a list of mods) and I'm a DIY newbie. I'm pretty sure I've messed something up in there somehow. So I'm going to spend some time going over them and tracking down the problem.

Thing is, my system sounds SO awesome right now that I don't have much motivation to sit down at the workbench!

Have fun,
Patrick