[rwfisher1969]

Originally Posted by John_W

I had an even more recent experience with Tom than the antenna problem 3 years ago, and it was free advice over the telephone. In September I had wood floors installed and the installers took apart my TV with my 5.1 surround sound system before I could take a picture of the back of the TV and amp, you should always do that when reassembling the system. If you need floors, the guys at the Floor Shoppe on 301 are great and work extremely fast.

After everything was back in place, I had a 75" TV on a stand and a lot of components and a pile of wires and had not set this system up in ten years and totally forgot how I did it. Now, I had no sound. First I bought 100' of new Monster Cable from Walmart because all the old speaker wire was messed up since they sort of ripped it out from the edge of the rug. The cable didn't help.

Now I'm trying to run component cables from the TV to Amp, from Amp to Directv box, TV to Directv, nothing worked, no sound. I called Tom and he called me back a short time later and I explained the situation. He said, throw away your component cable, throw away the patch cords and just run single optic cables between the components and instructed me how to connect them, then the sound came on with no problems. It was about a five minute call but saved me a lot of work and now I'll always take a photo. Here's the system, there's a center channel in the cabinet, a subwoofer on the far left, two tower speakers and two matching rear speakers, and a Sony Amp, Directv source and ROKU Stick to the internet. This system can emulate a real concert.

You can use regular lamp cord in place of the monster cable. Same wire at a fraction of the price.