Hi calvinj, I agree with your post, not everyone is here for the right reasons!, I am here for the pure love of music, I dedicated my whole life as a musician, and now that I am older and realize chaseing being a rock star is over, now I enjoy my system and my Tara labs cables, I am still building my system, that is the funny part of what some do not understand, I am getting ready to tube roll my cd-player with $500.00 a piece tubes!, The Mullard 10M for the 12AX7 tube position, and maybe the CBS 7318 for the 12AU7 position, and finally rolling the 6z4 recetifier tube to what?, I have not made permenant resavations for yet,then this player will end up on a second system I will build at a latter time, I will be very pickey as to what a so called respectable digital unit I get for the main system, the speakers I have will go on the second system as well, if I can find speakers that are very good and not over hyped and over priced!, or I might build them my self and use exotic caps inside with top tier drivers, I know people in the industry that will build cabinets to what ever my specs are, and believe this, they would never be over braced, or metal to kill the emotion of the music if I went that route, my system is on going, and will take the next few years to complete, I am a builder formost than anything, so patience and knowlegeable decisions are a must, cheers calvinj.