By the way--what speakers are you using to listen to all this great music/video ????
Current PC setup is a pair of 9849-8D's near field on class D chipamp(Lepai 2020A+). It's very satisfying, and a perfect match power/spl wise for late night listening. The 9849's were just recently swapped in place of PAS/Renkus duplexes that had been my PC speaks for a couple years. I miss the 101db sensitivity, but that's about all that's missed. Something about the overall tonality of the Altecs will keep them in a near field system with me for some time to come.