Nice looking system with the Tenor!
Are you saying the tenor contributed to the noise floor? That is contrary to my experience YMMV and all that.
I look for an immersive presentation no small window on sound for me-- although I do like my ESLs and I forgive them for that quality--- I have direct drive electrostatics no step up tranformers on the panels and no step down transformers on the amps great dynamic contrasts and big when they need to be. The Io certainly contributes to this illusion for me.
Yes it wasn't a quiet phono. Big bold tones very pleasing and macro dynamic too. I don't mean the opposite is a small window, but phonos which don't actively create a big sound yet the recording can sound big because of the stage that exists in the recording. Also I have never heard such phonos like Aesthetix and Allnic in a horn system, would like to.