setting up....
THE TALE OF THE CHEAPSKATE AFFICIONADO
speaker wires bought from ace hardware. awg#14 for the bi-wired mains and
awg#16 for the rear speakers. component and composite video cables still
courtesy of ace. nice good quality wires and cables if i might say and all for
a fairly reasonable price. thanks henry sy.
some of the rca connectors are from true value hardware, audio cables from
landmark and heavy duty banana plugs from the d.i.y. shop. rear channel
bananas from deeco and then painstakingly soldered. then add some colorful
cable ties from national bookstore and cable stays from sm workshop to tidy
it all up.
subwoofer is dtx 4.10 due for upgrade soon. i'm having some difficulty
matching it with my gales.
the marantz sr4500 all ready to take them all in. that mini-tv really came in
handy for testing all connectors and connections, and setting up the player
before everything was tied up together.
tight fit in there for the marantz so ventilation is handled by two slim muffin
fans from deeco placed on top of the receiver. on first power up, they are a
bit noisy, but settles down to almost whisper quiet after some time. every-
thing is protected electrically by the china made omni 1.5kva servo-controlled
avr for the price of a 1kva locally made avr.
more to come soon!
pdvd keeps compressing my pics, so just click on the higher-res thumbnails below.
