Russ - thank you and your store in Virginia for your prompt help!

I finally got my pads thanks to you - you must have shipped them the next day

the BL8k/2 sound great from the MX-130.

A warmth and fullness that is hard to quantify - but much better than being driven from the BS3200.

Now granted the inputs were going through a cheap radio shack switch which might be a huge part - but there is something very very different.

....ugh, now I am getting the bug back..... maybe some BL3 for surround sound? or some older BL4000??????

-michael