{"id":179,"date":"2006-02-23T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T22:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2006\/02\/23\/ampswap-part-1\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T02:29:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T07:29:17","slug":"ampswap-part-1","status":"publish","type":"earl","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/earl\/ampswap-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"AmpSwap, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think of it as Wife Swap, without the traumatized spouse and children, and with lots more RCA ports.  Today I disconnected everything from the back of my original A\/V amp so I can swap it out with the one in the living room.  I labeled everything, albeit temporarily, as I unplugged it, and believe me, every plug on the back of this thing had something in it.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m curious as to how my wife is going to like having my amp instead of hers, for one simple reason: mine has no remote control, so one has to get up and adjust the volume manually.  We&#8217;ll see how well that goes over.  <!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q1-06\/ampswap1.jpg\" alt=\"The back of the amp\" \/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s the back of my amp, with everything unplugged.  I love this amp.  God, that&#8217;s a lotta inputs.  (And outputs.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q1-06\/ampswap2.jpg\" alt=\"The lair of the rat\" \/><br \/>\nThis is everything I just unplugged.  (In case you&#8217;re wondering: yellow card = speaker, blue card = audio\/video component, purple card = audio component only.)<br \/>\nSo far the amp swap is going pretty uneventfully; it&#8217;s not like this process is particularly difficult, but it <em>is<\/em> sheer drudgery.  Once it&#8217;s done, though, I think I&#8217;ll probably like having the remote-controlled amp in my game room.  <img src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/>   As for what my wife&#8217;s planning on doing with an amp that doesn&#8217;t output video, it&#8217;s simple: without the Dish, she now really only has one thing other than the VCR that she watches in the living room, and that&#8217;s the DVD player&#8230;which can just as easily be plugged into the VCR inputs itself.  I&#8217;ll run the VCR output to a port on the amp, and of course hook up her CD and Minidisc players, and there you go &#8211; she&#8217;ll only be relying on it for audio.  It&#8217;s still a pretty nice amp and I wouldn&#8217;t be swapping if not for the video failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of it as Wife Swap, without the traumatized spouse and children, and with lots more RCA ports. Today I disconnected everything from the back of my original A\/V amp so I can swap it out with the one in the living room. I labeled everything, albeit temporarily, as I unplugged it, and believe me, every plug on the back of this thing had something in it. I&#8217;m curious as to how my wife is going to like having my amp instead of hers, for one simple reason: mine has no remote control, so one has to get up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"scribblings-cats":[],"scribblings-tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","earl","type-earl","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/earl\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/earl"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/earl"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/earl\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7470,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/earl\/179\/revisions\/7470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"scribblings-cats","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scribblings-cats?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"scribblings-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scribblings-tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}