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Originally Posted by 70sMac
It's kind of hard to know where to begin, Freddie, but I'll do my best. I'm a native deep southerner who took a formal radiac course in NOLA back around 1997. As we immediately fell in love with the "wildness" of the place, we immediately started talking about moving there and, eventually, found suitable work in the NOLA area at the turn of the century. We lived in Harvey first and, about a year later, we found a nice big place in Gretna. Unfortunately, storm Katie blew us -- and some of our family members -- out of NOLA. We ended up in my wife's home area, the Berkshires of western Mass, and our family (from the Violet area) ended up near you, north of Lake P. I don't really like to dwell on bad times, but we do miss the mecca of fine food. I've been all over the world, and there's no place I've been to that beats NOLA for food, period. 
I'm surprised that Monsieur Wilson had a poor opinion of Mac...because, if I remember correctly, he auditioned the 802Ns we ended up with via a Mac amp.
And now that we're discussing Mac, how do you like that 300W integrated monster you own? Based on what I just read in the Mac compendium, that MA8000 looks like the real deal, for sure...but I have to admit to being a sucker for 300W Mac amps with autoformer outs. In my experience, we've found that heavy is synonymous with great sounding...and, quite honestly, I'm very jealous. 
ADDENDUM: I don't know the first thing about them, but those Cantons you have also look like real monsters.
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Wow, what a story. Hurricanes are a way of life down here. Fortunate for us our house escaped damage from Katrina but everything around us was literally blown down. We lost almost all the trees in our yard and it took months to get the debris picked up an hauled off.
The current pandemic has put our local restaurant scene on the ropes. Places like K-Pauls has closed permanently and I think Brigsten's may not reopen as well.
On to a better topic...I really love the MA8000. It's a truly fine sounding amp with tons of connectivity. It handles the big Canton's with ease and delivers wide soundstages, complete control has tons of grip and is a very neutral sounding amp. Great resolution and shows nuance well. Being I have a small listening room, it was really essential to get a one box solution, although I admit to wanting to get into separates.
Hope you can make it down here again at some point. Eventually things will turn back to normal, it's just a question of what that "normal" will look like.