What's your profession? Age?

26yr old telecom collapse survivor.

Telecommunication Network Analyst, Surveillance Diagnose and repair hardware, translation, and customer troubles on Nortel DMS 500, Lucent 5Ess, Siemans ESWD, STPs, SCPs, and SOnus systems.
Needless to say, i have to put up with one wicked learning curve.

$7,500.00 Home Theater setup (bought all new, Did not know about Audiogone while i was building it, or it would probably be a 14,000 set up)

That system is DONE.

Now im looking into building a 2channel amp/preamp system from the ground up, 100% seperate from my existing HT

25, Elementary School Teacher. As you might guess, funds are tough to come by.

32...Ph.D. in virology/biological sciences...worked recently in P3/P4 conditions on hantavirus and west-nile virus, now working in biotech in virology and cancer biology...decent salary, but live in an expensive part of the country (southern California)....so my system is probably only about $7500...if that much

I retired about 5 years ago and got into the audio business since, quite by accident. I am about to turn 44 and have a beautiful wife and an audiophile son in the making who is about to turn 5.

When I am not listening to audio, I am watching Tireguy's movies. Also, I do not have a ph.d, never recieved my masters, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express once. :)

Jtinn- So your the one who recently purchased my boxed set ;) I appreciate it! It really contained all of the greats in my career.