boring

Hey everyone, I am into this stuff because life is pretty boring in Wisconsin. I have hopefully graduated from my first stereo, a gift on my 18th birthday. It was a fabulous JCPenney store brand (anyone remember MCS?) receiver, tape deck and speakers. A full in-home service warranty was also...

Edit: I removed a lot of what I wrote because it was quite pointless. So no awesome story inside this thread after all! ;) I don't know about you - but as a HT enthusiast constantly reading on forums all day long - I will eventually get to a point where I get this "urge" to upgrade once again...