Steve will still make the Monoblocks, they're just considered custom amps now, not production amps.  (Which may be good, get a custom amp. . . has an allure!)  I have these and love them.  

I've had the Select and the Monoblocks are very close in sound to my ears on my Radials.  But there's a lot more power.  I think a lot depends on your speaker choices.  The Taboo will drive diffrent speakers very well I think than the Select. . . . I'll watch as others pipe in on this thread.

Seems to me if you really like your speakers a C or a Select would be the choices. (The C may be ultimately more musical as it's a bit more forgiving in comparison to the very revealing Select).

I love my CS. Even replaced the grid stop resistors with 330 Ohm Tantalum's as well as the ones on the power tubes. Made a noticable improvement (with SelmerDave's help, thanks again) but I have a very wide range of music. From Classical to Jazz to some experimental and sometimes some hard driving freeform fusion stuff. 2 watts doesn't always satisfy when the recording is begging to be turned up. Having the Parker 95's (built by Mullman) helps a lot but...that's why I built the Buschhorns, which are awaiting the drivers, thinking I'd like to drive them with something with a little more guts. Hopefully something single-ended. It's hard to go back to Push-Pull once you've tasted SET's. I remember hearing Mullman's Buschhorns and his SE34I, the sound was quite impressive. Might be selling my CS soon, and the Parker's, hmm...Thanks for the feedback.

Can you elaborate more on the "Uber-Mod" for me? Still 2 watts? The FE's are 8 ohm yes?

Well my Buschhorns are up and running. I think these will be my speaker of choice. A different presentation from the Parkers. I think a Taboo would love these.

Thanks Chrisby,

I was just visiting The Hornshoppe website. Looks like he's using Blu Tack to damp the basket. Would I replace my Acoustafil with that little piece of foam?

[quote author=JDW  link=1140882532/0#9 date=1141340964] Thanks Chrisby,

I was just visiting The Hornshoppe website. Looks like he's using Blu Tack to damp the basket. Would I replace my Acoustafil with that little piece of foam? [/quote]

One of several differences between the B'horns and Ed's is the size/shape of the CC, so it's not a sure thing that the single layer of foam would do the trick - but it can't hurt to play with it.

it can never hurt to play with your horn

What are you're impressions of the Taboo with and w/o the CSP Gnat leader?