So I spent my entire day off...

[Black Diamond Vol]

...building the new TV cabinet I just bought.  That was actually the easy part.  The subsequent removal, reinstall, and re-wire of all my black boxes into the new unit was a freaking nightmare.  Started at about noon, just now finished.

[midtnvol]

...building the new TV cabinet I just bought.  That was actually the easy part.  The subsequent removal, reinstall, and re-wire of all my black boxes into the new unit was a freaking nightmare.  Started at about noon, just now finished.

You're supposed to build those things from scratch so you can custom fit all your gizmos in a tasteful but unique display. Then you could have taken off all week to get it done.

[Black Diamond Vol]

You're supposed to build those things from scratch so you can custom fit all your gizmos in a tasteful but unique display. Then you could have taken off all week to get it done.

I don't even have that much AV stuff.  It's really just a TV and four boxes (cable tuner, receiver, PS4, Xbox1).  The real pain is that I keep my network stuff in there, too.  So that adds a modem, router, and Ethernet switch.  And I wire the TV and all the boxes into the switch.  As a result, I have enough cables stuffed back there to stretch all the way from here to Atlanta.

The funny thing is that 20 years ago, when I was living in an Air Force dorm room, I had one of those insane Kenwood component stereos (back when Kenwood was still considered high-end) that had like 8 separate boxes all by itself- CD player, cassette, turntable, radio tuner, equalizer, power amp, and a couple others that I can't even remember.  And then on top of all that I had a cable box, VCR, and Sega Genesis.  And all that crap was MUCH easier to set up than what I have now.

[PirateVOL]

I don't even have that much AV stuff.  It's really just a TV and four boxes (cable tuner, receiver, PS4, Xbox1).  The real pain is that I keep my network stuff in there, too.  So that adds a modem, router, and Ethernet switch.  And I wire the TV and all the boxes into the switch.  As a result, I have enough cables stuffed back there to stretch all the way from here to Atlanta.

The funny thing is that 20 years ago, when I was living in an Air Force dorm room, I had one of those insane Kenwood component stereos (back when Kenwood was still considered high-end) that had like 8 separate boxes all by itself- CD player, cassette, turntable, radio tuner, equalizer, power amp, and a couple others that I can't even remember.  And then on top of all that I had a cable box, VCR, and Sega Genesis.  And all that crap was MUCH easier to set up than what I have now.

Bought a pretty high end (for the day) Kenwood setup at the Eddies BX   The speakers were about 4 feet high.  Never used the turntable (moved at least three times and it never came out of the box), had my 2nd CD player.  t started to get a bit painful above 5 ...   I thought we had some bad ass amps when I was at Kef but this bad boy could CRANK, distortion free!

[Black Diamond Vol]

Bought a pretty high end (for the day) Kenwood setup at the Eddies BX   The speakers were about 4 feet high.  Never used the turntable (moved at least three times and it never came out of the box), had my 2nd CD player.  t started to get a bit painful above 5 ...   I thought we had some bad ass amps when I was at Kef but this bad boy could CRANK, distortion free!

Yeah, that sounds about like what I had.  Bought mine from a friend who was PCSing.  It came with 2 JBL speakers that must've weighed 150 lbs each.  It was NOT fun getting them up to my room on the 3rd floor.   But damn, that thing was loud.  Loudest system in our building, anyway.