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The sounds of silence. (Surveying The Soundscape).
The Sounds of Silence: I just got back from Tim's house. Tim lives across the street; his carpentry skills recently saved my beloved Soundwave Fidelity Soliloqy speakers. And that wasn't the first time he's come through with table saw or router. So when he told me his recently acquired home theater sound system just wasn't doing its job--I got the impression that "Jurassic Park" might as well have been "Gertie the Dinosaur." I was almost happy about it. It was payback time.
Tim has decent gear in place: Sony AV receiver, Philips Hi-Fi VCR, Boston Acoustics sub-sat speaker setup, Pioneer CD changer. I carried over "TDK's Ultimate Guide to Great Sound" CD. It includes a few home theater test tracks and some Dolby Surround music tracks. I also grabbed an old (1993) "Consumer Guide to Home Theatre" videotape that Dolby Labs put out.
We played the CD first. Aside from a bit too much volume in the surround channel (probably from Tim's trying to get ANYTHING out of them before), everything was just fine.
Then we tried the tape in the VCR. Nothing. No sound came through the system speakers at all. Oh, if we cranked the volume full up, we could get some hiss, but that was all. Tim checked the cable routing. I checked the cable routing. It looked fine. I disconnected the VCR audio and plugged the CD player into those inputs. Sound came through fine. So I switched interconnects, putting the CD player cables between the VCR and the receiver. We got sound!
It seemed that the cables that had been connecting ...
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