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Good luck to your family. Sorry for such huge loss. Brutal  😣

Sorry, busy weekend.  I'm available, 270-556-8427

Probably the wrong guy(very biased) responding here but I feel it is always "better" to have more horsepower under the foot than not enough.  If it is cost effective for you to add an outboard amp then by all means do it.  I shop mainly on the used market and some of the amplifier bargains I have taken advantage of have really enhanced my systems.   A little hum that is not audible when things are all fired up never hurt me.   Yes, have everything powered off or better yet unplugged.   Bill

She's in Manila... asleep I hope, will catch a fight in the morning to one of the islands, and then a 14 mile boat trip. I'm praying for good weather!   Thanks everyone...

To me, there's no comparison b/w mono and properly recorded stereo.  Stereo wins hands down.  HOWEVER, some of the early stereo recordings were so absurdly mixed that they are unlistenable .  The only way I can listen to them is in MONO.    Some early Beetles, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan come to mind where the voice comes entirely from one speaker and instrumental accompaniment entirely from the other.  These songs are WAY more enjoyable after engaging the MONO switch.   I'll never again own an integrated amp or pre-amp that lacks a mono switch (or tone controls, for that matter).    

Sorry to hear this Bruce.  That is also a tough trip, exhausting. 

Andy, I want very much to be able to sit and talk with you, but unfortunately we won't be there. Could be lots of good stories to share.   Too much to do and not really able to get any more time off right now. First next trip is to deliver my LaScalas to my older son up in North Carolina. We have five grandkids to spend some time with there as well.    The LS are being replaced with some MWM (doubles) bind and an as yet to be worked out top section. I'm supposed to get get the MWMs this Wednesday.   Bruce

I tried contacting @MetropolisLakeOutfitters a few days ago but have not received any response.  Hoping to hear from him soon.

I like the silence of my helmet behind my windshield....All I hear is the "ticka, ticka, ticka" of my BMW airhead valve train coming from just ahead of each foot...it sounds just like a Singer sewing machine!  If it stops sounding exactly that way, and/or I fall beneath 45-47 miles per gallon at 80-85 mph, which ever occurs first, while on a long haul, it means I need to adjust the valves and re-torque the head bolts when the engine is cold the next morning...about a 15-20 minute job for both heads included, unless I am REALLY taking my time with my morning coffee while doing it!  LOL!   Seldom does the gas mileage NOT drop first!....well before the sound changes...unless I am pushing the time for replacing the exhaust valves!....saying to myself:  "they're OK for another ten or so thousand more miles...worry about it later"....  I've only needed to do it once on the '83 beemer...at around 85,000 miles...and it could very well have waited another 20,000 before it absolutely needed it!!  But I had the time that winter went ahead and did it, anyway!....Mostly due to Castrol getting rid of the sulfur in the GTX natural oils back in the late 90's!  After that complete valve replacement, aIong with replacing intake and exhaust valve seats to the tool-steel versions (due to so much gas having ethanol in it anymore), I changed over to Castrol's synthetic line of oil!  Ethanol additives for octane boost are hard on the stainless exhaust valve seats the engine was originally made with!...especially when in combination with no oil sulfur to help cushion the valve to seat closure!  Well over 140,000 on the bike now, but should already be hovering around 200,000 because I haven't really had much time away from my jobs to ride it nearly as much as before 2003! I normally would have put on more than just that much mileage!   No engine issues other than that one, though since I fixed that one!  My bike loves 95-98 octane best, which it can only get outside of the state where I reside, unfortunately!

Still might add 1" wood trim