NightWoundsTime
A nice hunk of young man
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I decided to finally go get a surround receiver to tie everything in my house together. I've already got a an old Marantz receiver with multiple ins and outs, and a Fid Audio Quintete for 3/2 stereo switching, but I wanted to really get everything linked up to everything else. I have a set of Klipsch 5.1 Promedia computer speakers that sounded ok but I wanted to experiment with amping them seperately vs. just the onboard amps in the sub. So I got a Denon AVR-587. I stripped ALL the electronics out of the sub on the Klipsch set. For now it's semi open with the wires sticking out connected to a 100W mono amp, but I've got plans to finish the thing out nice with new speaker connectors and lots of dynamat. Right now the sound on the small speakers is massively improved. The sub could use some help but I'm hoping damping and closing it up better will tighten it up. I really don't want to have to throw more power at the thing although I'm sure that two 8's in sub duty are going to struggle with an overrated 100 watts. I joked that my old 30w rated Marantz could probably give them more usable power, if I were willing to risk the thing on that kind of duty.
So the point is that now in my living room I've got the whole headphone rig, plus TV, DVD player, and Xbox hooked through the receiver and with the option to listen to any of it on speakers or headphones. Plus I've got the computer rig hooked in from the other room (hole in the wall with a piece of PVC stuck through and glued in for cable routing.) Still a few cheap cables on order from Monoprice, like a fiber optical and a couple of component video cables. I've got piles of wires running around my living room and now I just have to get everything semi permanently set in place. This is fun.
So the point is that now in my living room I've got the whole headphone rig, plus TV, DVD player, and Xbox hooked through the receiver and with the option to listen to any of it on speakers or headphones. Plus I've got the computer rig hooked in from the other room (hole in the wall with a piece of PVC stuck through and glued in for cable routing.) Still a few cheap cables on order from Monoprice, like a fiber optical and a couple of component video cables. I've got piles of wires running around my living room and now I just have to get everything semi permanently set in place. This is fun.
