I sure wish that rat-bastid salesman had mentioned something about that when I was shopping for TV's. Buying a new TV and coming out of the Dark Ages caused a pretty damn big technology refresh ripple in the BBM household. You and your brother caused me a lot of financial hardship - had to sell the Dancelli and a De Rosa.

Seriously, though - now that I have a decent A/V receiver plugged in (Onkyo NR-808), I'm pretty much good to go. The 200W/ch ADCOM GFA-555II comes off the test bench today, all tweaked and cleaned and ready to shoulder the 2-channel load to my Hales Engineering Group Revelation 3 main speakers. The Onkyo doesn't sound half bad though - and makes a pretty darn good surround-sound capable pre-amp, what with all the outputs and its 135W/ch oomph. And it even has a phono input - woot!

BTW - pre-game ride and Super Bowl party at my house. Shhhhhh....... don't tell anyone. Come on by, and drag that worthless brother of yours along.