I'm pretty much doing what you're doing dude. Probably getting the 990 and 7500. Sherbourn is out of my price range. I ordered all of my interconnects from dayton and my speaker wire from bluejeans. Now I just have to decide on the damn speakers. I knew that was going to be the toughest part. By the way could you measure the depth of the 990 for me? I'm looking for the depth of everything even the longest connection sticking out the back.