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CD Changer, Yamaha Receiver
It's not as wonderful a thing as our other news today, but the replacement CD changer I bought arrived in the mail today. I couldn't find any CDs in it; Miriam thinks maybe the seller noticed them while packing it and took them out. I was only able to plug it into my computer to test at first, since we didn't have an amp, but as I suspected, it seems 100% functional. The carousel spins, it detects loaded CDs, loads them, and plays them. The analog and digital outputs both work too. I played Birdhouse in Your Soul and while I listened and watched the CD player's display, I cried a little. It feels kind of ridiculous, but this one little step toward a sort of pre-fire normalcy suddenly hit me kind of hard.
I also went out today and bought a used surround sound system from a Kijiji seller. Insurance gave us a budget of around $400 to replace what was a really outdated Onkyo 5.1 receiver that I bought for $20 on Kijiji. For $300, we got a 2007 Yamaha 7.1 receiver that supports HDMI 1.2, a right/left/center set of Technics speakers, two Boston Acoustics speakers for the rear, and a Polk Audio sub. The sub has a blown driver that the owner did not disclose, but I honestly think she didn't know about it. Her dad is moving into an assisted living place and she's working on selling a lot of his stuff. It looks like I can get a refoaming kit for that specific sub for about $20, so I may try refoaming my first driver surround.
So we replaced the burned receiver with a better one than we had, plus an entire 5.1 speaker set which we *didn't* have, for about $100 under the insurance replacement budget for our old receiver. I am pleased. Once I got it set up, I connected my Klipsches to it and played a little TMBG and it was just so nice to have nice sound again!
I was really tempted to set up all the speakers so I can play Breath of the Wild in surround sound, but I think the complication of figuring out where to put the rear speakers in this place where we're only living temporarily isn't worth it to me.
I also went out today and bought a used surround sound system from a Kijiji seller. Insurance gave us a budget of around $400 to replace what was a really outdated Onkyo 5.1 receiver that I bought for $20 on Kijiji. For $300, we got a 2007 Yamaha 7.1 receiver that supports HDMI 1.2, a right/left/center set of Technics speakers, two Boston Acoustics speakers for the rear, and a Polk Audio sub. The sub has a blown driver that the owner did not disclose, but I honestly think she didn't know about it. Her dad is moving into an assisted living place and she's working on selling a lot of his stuff. It looks like I can get a refoaming kit for that specific sub for about $20, so I may try refoaming my first driver surround.
So we replaced the burned receiver with a better one than we had, plus an entire 5.1 speaker set which we *didn't* have, for about $100 under the insurance replacement budget for our old receiver. I am pleased. Once I got it set up, I connected my Klipsches to it and played a little TMBG and it was just so nice to have nice sound again!
I was really tempted to set up all the speakers so I can play Breath of the Wild in surround sound, but I think the complication of figuring out where to put the rear speakers in this place where we're only living temporarily isn't worth it to me.