Thank you for your concise response. Please elaborate on any differences you were able to discern.

Fair warning: No Floyd in the shuffle. Too many cross-track tunes. It's quite jarring

Floyd Cramer,George Floyd,Floyd Smith,Floyd Lee,Eddie Floyd,George Floyd,Joey Floyd,Floyd Tillman,Pink Floyd................you're going to have to be more specific???

Between sparring with da women, of course.

It's right on the tip of my tongue dammit!

Old school hardwire.

Gold plated RCA cables

12 ga OFC speaker wire

All components will, eventually, be housed in an oak rack. Speakers probably no more than 6’ from the rack.

Sounds like a sweet set-up, but definitely old school. The RCA cables will not give you the quality audio output that an optical cable or HDMI cable will provide, let alone the speaker wire. The short distance to the speakers will help. I'm guessing you probably already guessed this being the audiophile you are. I'm sure it will sound great though.

Yup.

Actually the CD changer has a digital out but since I never really liked using it, never bothered to upgrade the connection. Then again, I'm not sure if the receiver has a digital input port. One thing that will never change are the speakers. I bought them from the Stereo Warehouse in San Luis Obispo back in '75 along with a 80w Pioneer integrated amp for a little over $1022 shipped. The re-cone job cost me more than that! But, I love those speakers! I'mma rock 'n roll guy at heart so my JBLs are perfect for what I like to listen to. Fo' sure they'll never leave our house until I do.

Still trying to figure out what to do about a turntable but gonna delve into that once I get everything set up and figure out where I'm gonna put the records, if and when I get back into vinyl.

I hope you're talking about albums and not some 70's 80's clothing wear because I don't think you'll be able so slide into those outfits without some serious slathering of lubrication.

Hahahahaha!

Definitely not clothing. 🤣

Asking for Frank.. errr... a friend that will not be named on a public forum.

Finally got the bug to put everything back together so made some temporary space for the equipment and pulled out the boxes with the woofers. Realized space was a little tight so decided to take the components out so I could then take those boxes out of the room. A little bit of cleaning but otherwise, everything looked clean.

Put the woofers back into their cabinets and hooked them up to the receiver.

Plugged the receiver into the wall outlet.

Pressed the Power button.

No click, no lights, no nothing.

Nada.

Zippo.

Checked connections, changed wall outlet. Same dead-azz nothing.

Unplugged everything, boxed up the receiver, put the speakers back into a corner and covered them so that our granddaughters wouldn't play with them.

Gotta call around to see if someone can take a look at the receiver. Will take this opportunity to look for a new intergrated amp while I'm at it.

Man, I was really looking forward to listening to some Neil Young and Eric Clapton! 😣

nice recovery

This could probably be fixed without a huge expense.

That’s the first thing I thought of too.

My h.s. classmate uses a guy that is reasonable so I’mma gonna give him a call tomorrow. Hopefully he can also fix up a couple of cassette decks I have, a Sony and Nakamichi 700.