Including restoring the old 80’s-era wooden Kenwood rack, it took the better part of week to get the entertainment center back into operation. I re-wired everything to utilize new floor openings created to improve cable routing. The left surround channel wires still come up through the vent there, but other than that, the cabling is nicely routed and pretty much out of sight. I had 2 amps turn up bad upon re-activation. The Carver M1.5t was “declared bad” (again!) due to a 60htz hum it’s had for some time now. I now have 3 old Carver amps awaiting repair – 3rd time around for the M1.5t. Most of that stuff is around 25 years old, so I guess it is to be expected.
The TV Shelf was a DIY from way back after we first moved here. It was obvious that corner is the only good location for a TV, and corner furniture for the type system I was envisioning just doesn’t exist. It’s fabricated from 2 sheets of plywood with angle iron sandwiched around the edges and lag-screwed to the wall studs. It holds the TV with me standing on it just fine. Getting that JBL Studio Monitor mounted way up in the corner like that for the center channel was no mean feat. But it was the state-of-the-art reference speaker installed in recording studios everywhere back in the day and sounds great. It’s been kinda like the nostalgic signature centerpiece for the system, so it had to be done.