After watching the HDTV
The EGL freight service used by Amazon got it to me in a week, but overshot their 5-hour window by a good 2 hours. Jerry was kind enough to spend his Friday evening helping me set it up and enjoying the huge picture. The unboxing wasn’t as intricate as other products, but did feature a nice tray for the TV with two plugs that allowed the rest of the box to be lifted off. Samsung also had the good sense to provide two bona fide handles to help move the 90-lb monitor.
Plugging it in was easy with digital cables; HDMI into the monitor and a single optical audio out to the receiver. Stripping out all the old analog cables made quite an impressive pile. Not to blow my own horn, but I was also impressed with the size of my center channel when compared to my main speakers. I forget how huge the thing perched on top of the TV has been, but it makes sense with upwards of 50% of front audio coming through it. After finding it wouldn’t fit on the top shelf in front of the TV, I rearranged things to fit it below.
The final product, as Jerry noted, really completes the look of my bachelor pad. It’s a vision that I’ve had for at least six years, and there is a certain materialistic and technophile satisfaction in seeing it realized. Plus, “it really ties the room together”.
