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There are so many variants to consider when piecing together a home theater system that it can be overwhelming. There is also a lot of technical information thrown your way and it isn’t easy to separate the technobabble from the pretinent information. Having spent hours researching what exactly all the numbers mean and hearing so many viewpoints, all I can say for certain are to do these things when building your home theater:

- Go and listen to the speakers themselves (most important thing to learn)
- The receiver will subtly influence the sound and may or may not be perceptible by you, just make sure if has enough wattage to suffice your speakers or you may fry your amp (the engine that runs the receiver)
- Go into it with a clear budget in mind and don’t deviate. Things get expensive quick in the audio world and there’s no reason to go into massive debt because then you won’t be enjoying your home theater system while riddled with debt stress. Build it in stages if you have to, it’s what I did.
- There are a lot of debate on what wiring to get. My advice? Get 12 gauge wire. It’ll suffice in almost all occasions and can be bought for only a couple pennies a foot more compared to other cable sizes (make sure to buy online, though).

I’ve been sucking big time towards achieving this goal. I have so many things pertaining to my health that I have to get in order that this has fallen by the wayside for the moment. I try not to have more than one soda a day though, which seems to be working for the short term, but I am aiming for this goal once I get back to the gym.

Hard Drive space. Yes an mp3 runs about 3.5 to 8 mb max, but when you have a CD collection like mine (350+ albums) storage space becomes an issue. This is also taking into consideration that I have obtained countless other songs through mp3 downloads. Anyway, it is very nice to have my collection in digital format. Unfortunately, I have too much music. I am very happy that apple decided to come out with an 80 GB iPod but it still isn’t enough for collection. But with the advent of the iTV you can have a digital jukebox without having to pause for another CD to be put in and without the bulk of those mega CD players. It was a grueling month and a half of full-time work and full-time uploading but I feel much better. Now all I have to do is convert those m4a’s to mp3’s, and then make sure that I eliminate repeats, and then name then under a consistent formatted name…