Thanks for the feedback and advice Page. I can always count on you.
I had to use several adapters to get from the 1/4 inch female monitor out to the TA3F in, via a mic cable, so I'm sure that the likelihood that it was out of phase was probably high. Was there something that clued you in to that problem? I know it when I hear it via a demo disk a la
Stereophile, but it seems harder to detect when "just listening" without a comparative source.