"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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In any event, right now I feel like the horse's ass.

As President Emeritus of the Horse's Ass Club, I welcome you to our
fraternity.

Your official membership card and wall plaque will arrive shortly. :)


Right now I am brain dead anyway. I bought a new Denon AV receiver/amp a
couple of weeks ago and have been pulling my hair out trying to understand
how to program the thing. It worked fine in all the special effect surround
sound modes but would *not* play in simple stereo or direct pure mode. I
had hooked up a turntable and retrieved one of three large boxes of my
father's old LPs, but it just didn't sound right listening to the Tommy
Dorsey Orchestra in surround sound. Then, I discovered that even the tuner
section would not play in stereo only.

I finally got a hold of Denon customer service and they were very helpful.
Turns out the damn thing is controlled by a microprocessor and I had to
"reinitialize" it. (the old, ctrl, alt, delete routine). Now it works
like it's supposed to.

These new audio components are very complex. Assignable audio and video
inputs, upscaling conversions from regular DVD video to near HD quality,
plus a gazillion audio programmable functions for each source. Tomorrow I
am going to attempt to bi-amp the Martin-Logan's using the programmable and
assignable zone 2 output. But, right now I have a headache.

Eisboch