Not, yet, Lee. Thanks for the accolades, guys. You know, if an unsuspecting newbie were to coontemplate joining right now and was thinking this was a serious conclusion, he wouldn't last long, here. This should be considered a pre-emptive form of filtering.
However, after saying that:
I backed up my observation of amplifier fan cooling by lowering the amp's heat sink temperature from 96 F down to 83 F. Took me a good 3+ hours of nursing the oscillating fans to get it down that low. The true test confirmed my findings as by the end of the evening, with the Pioneer receiver volume control knob at the 11 o'clock position, I succeeded in getting it to sound like Chet Baker was doing a cover of Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want To have Fun."
Nando.