Been busy the whole day doing different things. Feels so sleepy now. The cold raining weather now means I'll have a good night sleep later.
Woke up in the morning today and had some simple breakfast. Then I continue my work on cleaning and setting up my home theater speakers which I spent whole night to clean. It has been some time since we last use the speakers. I knew we had a good set of surround speakers but never really utilise it. So I decided to start cleaning it and make good use of it. Rather than just sitting there collecting dust.
What I did first was getting the proper equipments like cloth, pail of water, screwdrivers and soap. Then I start to disconnect all the audio cables from the amplifier and players. Removing the DVD player 1st, followed by the Astro decoder, then the karaoke mixer. I placed everything aside and clean them 1 by 1. Finally, it came to the old yet powerful, big and heavy dusty amplifier.
The platform under it was covered with thick dust and the internal parts as well. Took the screwdriver and open the case up. Did not care bout the warranty void sticker as it ends long time ago. After opening the casing, to my horror, is a thick layer of dust covering all the circuit board and capacitors. Pictures can tell a better story.
All the cables are covered in dust and gray in colour. I took a brush, cotton buds and start cleaning around. Clean all possible areas that my equipments can reach. This is the result of leaving a amplifier un-touch for more than 10 years? I think..
After some time of cleaning the circuit board etc etc of the amplifier. I then clean the speakers as well. The speakers have been hibernating for years and never been used. It is time for me to giv it a test, but it's quite late when I finish cleaning everything. I decided to do it the next day, which is today.
This morning after my breakfast, I start to assemble all the 5 speakers around my PC and connect to the amplifier. I connect the amp to my PC and changed my PC audio settings to 5.1 surround system. After the cable fixing and testing, I found out that the right port for the front speakers is too soft. Even I tried the balancing thing and change to other port, the result is still the same. The speaker is fine but the port is not. Same goes to the 2 more rear speakers. The sound was too soft even i tried changing settings.
So I end up connecting the both front speakers to the same Left port and just use it as it is. The center speaker seems fine and the rear speakers I wont really bother much. After tat, I arrange everything back to its original place and connect the audio cables back to the player and TV. Then I gave it a try and the sound produced is wonderful, even thou it is not as good as before, but the bass is good enuf to shake the whole house even with just a quarter on.
After arranging the speakers and connecting everything back. I then clean the ceiling fans in my house. No one is free to do so and the fan blades are clogged with dust. My work doesn't end here, I continue filling my noon with other work, under the heat, full of sweat. Tidy up the mess around the TV, arranging the shoes and rack with the help of my sister. I then sweep and mop the living room twice to clear all the dust.
Rain starts to fall around evening and things starts to cool down bit. Everything starts to settle down and things starts to look neat and nice. The speakers are doing fine, producing nice sound for my enjoyment.
Contacted my forum fren to arrange for a COD this evening. He's been busy lately and don't have stock for the fan that I requested. So I just take another brand of fan which is almost the same, but different colour. He's been good for giving me extra discounts after discount for a CM 90cfm fan and tuniq tx-2 thermal paste. He just charged me RM35 for both items as an apology of keeping me waiting for weeks.
COD-ed with him at McD around 7pm+ with my bro and then we head home for dinner. After my dinner, my bro and I started our operation on both PC. My bro took out the Intel stock HSD from the old PC to clean it and re-apply the thermal paste with the TX-2 I just bought. I too, took out my Xigmatek RS to change the thermal paste. I also add in the new fan i just bought and did some simple modding to my casing. Details of this operation will be up tomorrow as I don't have enough time to blog 2 post for today.
After finish everything and give a test run, it's almost 11pm ady. Park my car in and went to bath. My girl fall asleep ady when I finish my bath. Looks like she's pretty tired today. I'm tired as well, guess I'll have to stop here and continue tomorrow.
What I did first was getting the proper equipments like cloth, pail of water, screwdrivers and soap. Then I start to disconnect all the audio cables from the amplifier and players. Removing the DVD player 1st, followed by the Astro decoder, then the karaoke mixer. I placed everything aside and clean them 1 by 1. Finally, it came to the old yet powerful, big and heavy dusty amplifier.
The platform under it was covered with thick dust and the internal parts as well. Took the screwdriver and open the case up. Did not care bout the warranty void sticker as it ends long time ago. After opening the casing, to my horror, is a thick layer of dust covering all the circuit board and capacitors. Pictures can tell a better story.
All the cables are covered in dust and gray in colour. I took a brush, cotton buds and start cleaning around. Clean all possible areas that my equipments can reach. This is the result of leaving a amplifier un-touch for more than 10 years? I think..
After some time of cleaning the circuit board etc etc of the amplifier. I then clean the speakers as well. The speakers have been hibernating for years and never been used. It is time for me to giv it a test, but it's quite late when I finish cleaning everything. I decided to do it the next day, which is today.
This morning after my breakfast, I start to assemble all the 5 speakers around my PC and connect to the amplifier. I connect the amp to my PC and changed my PC audio settings to 5.1 surround system. After the cable fixing and testing, I found out that the right port for the front speakers is too soft. Even I tried the balancing thing and change to other port, the result is still the same. The speaker is fine but the port is not. Same goes to the 2 more rear speakers. The sound was too soft even i tried changing settings.
So I end up connecting the both front speakers to the same Left port and just use it as it is. The center speaker seems fine and the rear speakers I wont really bother much. After tat, I arrange everything back to its original place and connect the audio cables back to the player and TV. Then I gave it a try and the sound produced is wonderful, even thou it is not as good as before, but the bass is good enuf to shake the whole house even with just a quarter on.
After arranging the speakers and connecting everything back. I then clean the ceiling fans in my house. No one is free to do so and the fan blades are clogged with dust. My work doesn't end here, I continue filling my noon with other work, under the heat, full of sweat. Tidy up the mess around the TV, arranging the shoes and rack with the help of my sister. I then sweep and mop the living room twice to clear all the dust.
Rain starts to fall around evening and things starts to cool down bit. Everything starts to settle down and things starts to look neat and nice. The speakers are doing fine, producing nice sound for my enjoyment.
Contacted my forum fren to arrange for a COD this evening. He's been busy lately and don't have stock for the fan that I requested. So I just take another brand of fan which is almost the same, but different colour. He's been good for giving me extra discounts after discount for a CM 90cfm fan and tuniq tx-2 thermal paste. He just charged me RM35 for both items as an apology of keeping me waiting for weeks.
COD-ed with him at McD around 7pm+ with my bro and then we head home for dinner. After my dinner, my bro and I started our operation on both PC. My bro took out the Intel stock HSD from the old PC to clean it and re-apply the thermal paste with the TX-2 I just bought. I too, took out my Xigmatek RS to change the thermal paste. I also add in the new fan i just bought and did some simple modding to my casing. Details of this operation will be up tomorrow as I don't have enough time to blog 2 post for today.
After finish everything and give a test run, it's almost 11pm ady. Park my car in and went to bath. My girl fall asleep ady when I finish my bath. Looks like she's pretty tired today. I'm tired as well, guess I'll have to stop here and continue tomorrow.
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