Thanks Al, I'm sure it's the good karma from head-case.
Thanks Ken, I'm sure I will. It will no doubt beat the cheap $2 radio shack interconnects i've been using temporarily. I don't know why, but the audioquest interconnects i had were extremely tight.
btw - i did listen to your rig at the meet, with my Denon hooked up. I'm positive it would have been 10 times better if you could have gotten the exemplar working. those k340s were very power hungry, i really had to crank your extreme to get them to sing. your HP-2s sounded good, but they were a bit snug on my large skull, sort of like a vice, but an extremely good sounding vice.