Thanks to all that responded to my original thread regarding my Musical Fidelity A3cr and the mysterious problems with distortion and severe cross talk. It turns out that I had my cd player recorder hooked up wrong. I had the interconnects to trap rec instead of tape in. This caused distortion when I played my Arcam cd player and might have had something to do with the cross talk because the shop said all was well with the pre amp. If I had simply kept my head and took my time I would have saved myself two grueling albeit nostalgic drives in to my hometown of San Francisco. Oh well at least I have piece of mind that nothings wrong and all is sounding as it should. Thanks again.