Thanks once again. I was not about to tackle the entire 30+ page monster, but consolidated into three posts it was doable. Now to make a decision... and I thought picking out cables was gonna be the easy part. This crap takes just as much time as choosing components!

Will do. Im also interested in how its gonna turn out. It could end up being really nice and integrated with a professional installment or it could end up a bunch of metal boxes and 12v batteries duct taped too the floor, lol. Im gonna furthor investigate that ambulance grade inverter and see...

sucks for the pilot

Hey thanks man, really. I couldnt imagine summarizing all that. This has helped me alot in deciding which cables to get because I really didnt want to have to put over $15,000 on my credit card to test em all. As for the Encouragement, youve already done 2/3rd of it, you cant give up now...

Its no problem, and thanks for the link. Pure sine wave inverter with balenced power conditioner it is! I was thinking I would need a regenerator because all the inverters I saw had the cracked out since waves except for this one expensive looking "ambulance grade" inveter.

kelly - lol yeah I guess I shoulda been more specific. I searched and found the answers for the amps I was thinking of though. Hirsch - Have you had a chance to listen to the Zotl with your RS1s yet?

DCT-2 sounded bad? Warm up, crap I forgot about that. How long do tube hp amps typically take till theyre soundin sweet?

Budgie - So given that my equipment is wired for ac I guess my best options are: a) Buy a really nice dc inverter (ambulance grade) and a balenced power conditioner. or b) Buy a normal, cheap plug-in dc inverter and a power regenerator. or even better c) Buy an industrial type...

Thats true, after I settle in with this system up I dont plan on changing anything (except for maybe trying out new headphones) for quite some time. I dont dont like the build and upgrade little by little approach. Its way too time and mind consuming for me, I have better things to think about...

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Holy **** thats hot, I gotta bookmark this thread. setmenu, you are a pimp.

For real, thanks to everyone who helped make this happen. You rock! BTW, would anyone happen to have an EAR HP4 they could bring? Im most likely going to buy one after the meet but coming from England so I wont have a chance to hear it first.

Wow, thanks mark! That had to be a bitch. I had trouble sitting still to read the entire thing so I can only imagine what it was like for you. Rick should just stick a link to this thread on the front page of his site and not worry about advertisting. Im not positive about VDs digital and analog...

markl - Well id have to get the ICs too since I dont have any right now and im looking to set this up as quick as possible. As for the half meter lengths I thought that would be best because I dont use a rack and all the components will be sitting next to each other, plus space is at a minimum...

Ok ill give you a clue: It came from a laboratory in Japan with a 4 and a 7 in the name. Damn, I think ive given it away.