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KaBOOM And a room full of Smoke Help??

Hi, my name is Christine. My husband is trying to set up a nice sound system and as recently bought audio components like a reel to reel, tuner, equalizer etc. etc. He was trying to hook them up the night before and one of the components exploded and bellowed out a bunch of smoke! Yep! It's toast.

He's not really a newbie with this, but he has more to hook up and it's a little confusing. Is there any "How to" books or any advice on how he can hook this all up where it's easy to understand and make it all come together and sound right?

Also, if there's any thing like that for hooking up a surround sound system for TV's? Ours never sounded quite right and can't figure out why.

Thanks for any help you can give us, we don't have a clue where to find that information. :)
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Sorry to hear of the problems. I can understand where your husband could run into problems as surround sound with a full compliment of source components ( TV, VCR, DVD, Satellite / Cable box, Tuner, tape deck, etc...) with multiple channels of amplification can become one hell of a wiring nightmare. So many different inputs ( sometimes multiple jacks for each device ) and multiple outputs can make for one helluva confusing rats' nest of wiring.

This specific book "might" be of help. I have not read this one, but it is written by the Editor of "The Absolute Sound" aka Robert Harley and Tomlinson Holman of THX fame. I don't know how "technical" it gets or how helpful it will be for your specific installation, but Harley tries to keep things pretty simple in his other two channel "stereo" based book. Best wishes, good luck and welcome to the "club".... Sean
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