My budget rig was built around Grado's, kinda wish I would of done a few things differently now, and plan on doing some upgrades when I get back working.
I use my computer as source, I bought the Headfive last year for $250, NOS Number Cruncher 203.2 for $50, and the SR80's ran me about $95. Cables: Quail power cord, Monoprice Toslink, still need to upgrade my RCA patch using an old Monster Cable MKII400.
What do you consider a good Toslink, I'm just running a monoprice 8mm cable and it sounds pretty dam good in my system. I had a piece of junk Toslink from eBay before that and it did sound pretty bad with that cable.
I just hit new posts, and there is already 5 OMG were back, Glad it's back, etc.. I'm guessing by tomorrow there should be about 200 of these and probably 500 "list what you did during the outage" threads.
I found this forum a few days ago when I was searching google for head-fi outage it brought me to a site called Board Reader and I seen a link to here.
I'm glade I found this place, I been lurking a few days and some of the posts definitely clues you into things you just won't see on the other forum.