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Title: So I spent my entire day off... Post by: Black Diamond Vol on January 14, 2016, 02:07:53 EST ...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. :frown:
Title: Re: So I spent my entire day off... Post by: midtnvol on January 14, 2016, 03:11:39 EST ...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. :frown: 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.Title: Re: So I spent my entire day off... Post by: Black Diamond Vol on January 14, 2016, 03:41:01 EST 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. :frown: 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. :frown: Title: Re: So I spent my entire day off... Post by: PirateVOL on January 14, 2016, 03:48:29 EST 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. :frown: 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 ... :loco: I thought we had some bad ass amps when I was at Kef but this bad boy could CRANK, distortion free!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. :frown: Title: Re: So I spent my entire day off... Post by: Black Diamond Vol on January 14, 2016, 03:56:02 EST 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 ... :loco: 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. :frown: But damn, that thing was loud. Loudest system in our building, anyway. :dude: |