AmpSwap, Part 1

Think of it as Wife Swap, without the traumatized spouse and children, and with lots more RCA ports. Today I disconnected everything from the back of my original A/V amp so I can swap it out with the one in the living room. I labeled everything, albeit temporarily, as I unplugged it, and believe me, every plug on the back of this thing had something in it.
I’m curious as to how my wife is going to like having my amp instead of hers, for one simple reason: mine has no remote control, so one has to get up and adjust the volume manually. We’ll see how well that goes over.

There’s the back of my amp, with everything unplugged. I love this amp. God, that’s a lotta inputs. (And outputs.)

This is everything I just unplugged. (In case you’re wondering: yellow card = speaker, blue card = audio/video component, purple card = audio component only.)
So far the amp swap is going pretty uneventfully; it’s not like this process is particularly difficult, but it is sheer drudgery. Once it’s done, though, I think I’ll probably like having the remote-controlled amp in my game room. As for what my wife’s planning on doing with an amp that doesn’t output video, it’s simple: without the Dish, she now really only has one thing other than the VCR that she watches in the living room, and that’s the DVD player…which can just as easily be plugged into the VCR inputs itself. I’ll run the VCR output to a port on the amp, and of course hook up her CD and Minidisc players, and there you go – she’ll only be relying on it for audio. It’s still a pretty nice amp and I wouldn’t be swapping if not for the video failure.