Why are you adamantly against such a section? I do agree with the fact that we do not wish to gunk up the site with extra sections that are useless to folks here. But this is my entire point, I do not believe a section based around HTPC or computer audio would be useless. Is it a source? Yes. But is it as simple as you make it out to be, certainly not. When you need help building one, should you go to a PC forum? Sure, but if it boils down to this, why does Audioholics have an entire "How to build an HTPC"? As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single HT/AV publication that has not had at least 1, if not more, articles dedicated to this same topic. Obviously they think it is important enough to publish an entire how to section on it, why can't we discuss it in this forum? Do I want to invite 14 year olds to come in for some of those great VC flame wars? Of course not, but I also don't like wading through those same threads on other sites either, so why not give our mature and more focussed audience here a chance to share their experiences and suggestions in a centralized forum. If the Mods are completely against this, then that's fine, it's their playground, we play by their rules. But if they aren't, what would adding this one section do for you? Add .2 secs to your scrolling down to the Steam Vent and back up? Thanks for the good debate, keep it up.
Mike
BTW: a quick search with the topic "HTPC" came up with 419 threads, I'm guess that atleast 100 of them would meet your criteria