I Suck At Surround Sound

the media is saying that yesterday was a historic day. i guess that's true. after all, the country was either going to have the first african american president or the first female vice president. americans overwhelmingly chose the former.

so in celebration of the historical event yesterday, i worked on installing surround sound in our living room... to hear the campaign speeches of course. too bad i suck at surround sound.

a long while back (close to when we first purchased our house), karen and i thought about having surround sound in our living room. at the time, neither of us wanted huge speakers or any other thing that was an eyesore in the room. we eventually found a set of speakers on ebay. (my only stipulation of course was that the speakers had to be sony... i'm a sony guy... i should probably buy stock in sony because i own so many products by sony.)

unfortunately, when we received the speakers, we did not have anything to mount the speakers to the walls with. so, we basically connected the speakers to our receiver and simply placed the speakers around the television.

the set of speakers sat that way, for quite some time... even when i did finally get brackets to mount the speakers to the walls over a year ago. (the brackets... also by sony.) one of the reasons, aside from sheer laziness, as to why i did not install the brackets was because karen and i had talked about adding a second floor, straightening the living room ceiling (as the living room was slanted midway through the room), and repainting the entire room. i thought it would be best to wait until all of those items were done before installing the brackets and the speakers... and thus finally getting surround sound.

as luck would have it, everything came together. after a quick trip to the store for supplies, i worked on connecting the wires from the speakers to the faceplate, and then connecting the wires from the faceplate to the receiver. i am so thankful that i ran the wires before the second floor addition was done. installing the surround sound was so much easier.

anyway, i tested the surround sound to make sure the speakers are functioning properly... and they are... so that is always a good sign. now if i can only convince karen that we need a new television for the living room...