Am I going to finals? Hell no. I am not interested in driving half way across the country to possibly win a plastic trophy. I live too far away. I don't need to see the truck in person to understand your choices. Most are self explanatory...except for the amp change of course. Also, don't take my questions wrong. You seem to be getting agitated that I was asking your reasons for switching amps. I was just curious. As I stated before, it is surprising that there is another amp out there from LP that can meet, or surpass, the 2.2HV in SQ and most people don't know it. I surely didn't. I think if more people knew, the search for the 2.2HV wouldn't be as intense and most would be searching for the DPS500. You do know that Ray (TIPS) does modifications to just about all Linear amps. Are you talking about stock amps or modified amps ??? All of our amps has been modified. (no secrets) all the info can be found on www.linearpower.com ... If you know Ray as well as we do ... anything is possible.