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Home Theater — Part 2

The JBL speakers sound phenomenal! My daughter loves it. When she watches Shrek, it’s like she’s seeing it for the first time. She gets so excited now, instead of just sitting and watching.

I put the finishing touches on the wiring today. All the audio now goes directly to the Denon receiver, instead of via the TV. The Sony DVD goes directly to the TV, while the Sony VCR and APEX DVD are multiplexed by the receiver, so I can use a single input on the back of the TV for both. This finally gets the APEX DVD off the top of the Sony DVD, so everything runs cooler. If you’ve never heard of APEX, it’s an unknown brand, but it plays anything, no matter how damaged. Sony normally chokes on damaged DVD’s.

The only remaining issue is to connect the Aiwa CD player to the receiver, since the Sony DVD player cannot handle our CD’s. The optical digital cable is on order