$44 from
SVS. I'll bet Fleabay has a ton as well.
Is it worth it to pay someone hundreds of dollars to come and calibrate your system? I don't know how you throw your money around but I'm pretty thrifty. It did take some time to learn how to calibrate so is your time worth that much? I use occaisions like that as a learning experience. In the future, it will save you money. You will buy new equipment and have to re-calibrate. If you don't know how to do it, then you have to pay someone again.
It doesn't apply directly here but here is how DIY saves you money. I learned how to install satellite dishes back on my first system. Since then, I have installed at least a dozen dishes for friends, family and the different places I have lived. On my last upgrade, DirecTV required a "professional" install of the dish. Fine. It was free. Well, I got what I paid for. Within a few months, wind had blown the dish out of alignment. I called D* and asked for a re-alignment. $97 for the service call is how they responded. I argued, pleaded and begged. They didn't budge. The next morning, I pulled out my ladder and adjusted the dish myself. It took less than 10 minutes and saved me almost $100.
-Robert