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  Anybody else wanna pull their hair out ?
I just got done trying to "re-plumb" my HT system. How i pity professional installers of this stuff. It is PATHETIC what one has to do to get all of this stuff hooked up "right". I am an electronics tech by trade and even i get confused as to what goes where !!! The two worst things that i realized is that there is really no standardization of jacks ( audio RCA's, Balanced, S-Video, Component Level video, Composite Video, 75 ohm digital, toslink, spades, banana's, etc....). Between the 3 trillion different types of connectors, you also have to worry about what length of each type of cable you need where.... It's enough to drive you crazy. On top of that, you should pray to God that you never loose power once you get all of that crap programmed !!! Some of this stuff will "reset" at the drop of a hat. Take my advice people. Keep your HT system as simple as possible !!! You'll enjoy it more when you watch a good movie rather than remembering all of the hassle that you had to go through just to get the damn thing to work. I would do things VERY differently if i knew then what i know now. Sean
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Sean  (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

03-11-01
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03-11-01   "anybody else wanna pull---? got none left;and i always ...   Avguygeorge

03-11-01   I'm not into ht (and i too have little hair left to pull out ...   Puddles

03-11-01   I also just re plumbed ... i had to draw out diagrams and it ...   3728slingshot

03-11-01   Well, you should try and "plumb" 25 different comp ...   Slartibartfast

03-11-01   i too had to re plumb not long ago. i have a ht system and ...   Pcc

03-11-01   Or you could do like me and have a different brand of ic for ...   Swampwalker

03-11-01   I'm selling my house the 20th of this month and moving into ...   Bigwood

03-12-01   Sounds like compared to some of you, my system was simple. w ...   Njonker

03-12-01   Hmmm... i guess i've just got a knack for it. the little l ...   Hifiho

03-14-01   hifiho, i think it may just be you. unfortunately i don't ...   Pcc

03-14-01   Like almost everything worth doing, documentation is the key ...   G_conway@

03-15-01   Hifiho ( gotta luv the name...), i'm talking about taking ev ...   Sean

03-15-01   funny, that's a problem facing me now. just got some new to ...   Adamanteus

03-15-01   sean, maybe he has an "s" on his chest. sean go ...   Pcc

03-15-01   Adamanteus, comparing billy bags to sanus is like comparing ...   Sean

03-17-01   Thanks sean, point taken, but for something like this for m ...   Adamanteus

03-17-01   Adamanteus, the sanus racks will work fine in terms of havin ...   Sean

03-25-01   Yes, sean, but we have all been there...and are still doing ...   Stereokarter

05-12-06   What hair? the number and jumble of wires are mind boggling ...   Datsunmike

05-13-06: Allanblissett
Not just the wires, but having two or three manuals open in front of you, tring to figure out why something won't work in one system, when it works fine with the same hookup in another system. Not to mention the remotes.
I just got a flat screen and redid the HT. So I figured I would put the better Samsung HD Directv box from the bedroom into the main HT system.
Well I hooked it up the same way its been working in the bedroom, using coax digital out for the sound to the Marantz reciever.
Now when I try to use the same coax out, going into my Sherwood Newcastle pre, I can not get the audio out of any Directv programs. I get it out on the local antenna, but just picture from Directv, no audio.
So after hours of hair ripping I gave up and used RCAs.
Any ideas would be welcome.

Allanblissett  (Threads | Answers | This Thread)


05-27-06   Agree it is complicated as i have "replumbed" seve ...   Sulloj


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