I don't disagree with that. One of my criteria however is that I want it to look right at home with the rest of my equipment... like it belongs there as another pc of a/v equip as opposed to a computer case. I've been going back and forth on a couple of different ones, but have yet to really decide. I really like the Omaura cases, but they don't seem to have a solid footing delivery-wise just yet. Either way, I just want something sleek that will look at next to my Sunfire Amps and Pioneer Elite Receiver.
I've been actually thinking of going with a much smaller sleeker case on the equipment side and just having a seperate media server in the other room. That way I could keep the case smaller and sleeker and I would have more options. My only concern now that I think about it would be the video card limitations. I was thinking about this case
http://www.omaura.com/tf5.html with this to store the hard drives
http://www.omaura.com/tfhdd.html but I think the frist case is just to small to house a serious video card, tuner cards, and probably a sound card if the manf. go the dual card solution for the lossless audio output. I do like these cases however and would still consider either the TF8 or TF11. I'm told they're supposed to be available in silver at some point.