Kevin,

No COSMOS Battery to my knowledge, EEPROM Checked out. I have made up my mind I am selling or trading the Newcastle. I am just to close to getting my new HT system in place to keep messing around. I am getting an Outlaw 950 and probably a 200 for center power. I would like to wait until my Subwoofer gets back from Adire and set everything up at once (first one sounded great but UPS smashed it on trip over). Finally I will have a decent HT set up to go along with my 2 channel system (all in the same room). I have the Meadowlark Shearwater Hot Rods for main speakers, The Meadowlark Petrel for center, sitting about 20 " off the floor. The Meadowlark Kestrel Hot Rods for sides, and the Adire Daeva 15" sealed subwoofer. I will be using Sonic Frontiers Mono Blocks Tube Amps and Anthem Hybrid tube AMP 2 for mains, and Anthem MCA 3 for rears, with a Carver 5 channel for reserve. SACD should be great. Movies improved. Right now I will continue to use my Anthem Pre2L with theater loop for a preamp and EAR 834P for phono stage for vinyl (still have 5000 albums), but I plan to sell those and get either a VTL 5.5 or a Rogue 99 with HT loop and a phono stage. Unless I get the bug and go back to a Sota Cosmos TT (I still miss it and regret selling it), then I am through for at least 3 or 4 years. I would like to be totally out of Anthem by the end of the summer due to personal reasons. They make great gear, but I am going a different route. I will keep my SF mono Blocks unless I get a great offer and can pick up some Rogue, VAC or others in mono blocks.