reydelaplaya
Super Member
Starting in 1991, my second year of college, I was still working at Sears (where I had been through high school, just in a different store), and bought an entire home theater system. On credit, but with a decent employee discount.
It consisted of:
Sony 27" Flat Screen Trinitron
Sony STR-D990 Receiver
Pioneer CLD-M301 5 CD Changer / Laserdisc Player
Sony VCR with S-Video Output
Bose Acoustimass 5 Series II (main)
Bose Center Channel
Polk Audio Monitor Series II (surround)
Nintendo 64 (added in 1997)
and tied it all together with that fancy Monster Cable
Laserdiscs:
Basic Instinct (Widescreen)
Terminator 2 Special Edition (widescreen with gatefold cover and signed letter from JC, himself))
Cool World (Widescreen)
and a few others that aren't instantly popping into mind
That set-up followed me for almost a decade, through various apartments, houses, house parties, etc. and never once quit.
In 1999, I moved here to the island. Once I got settled in, I trucked (over the course of several trips in carry-on luggage LOL) the Sony receiver and all of the speakers. The VCR, I gave to my grandmother, and was in use up until her passing last year. The TV is still in use in my parents' house in the grandkids' play room. The laserdisc player is currently MIA, but I'm pretty sure it's still somewhere in my parents' house and will eventually be found and shipped here. That Sony receiver just finally gave up on me last summer. Those Bose and Polk speakers are still going strong, and now sound even better since they've been A + B-ed off that old Yamaha I bought to replace the Sony. The N64 is still with me, and is the only reason I bought this little Samsung 1080 TV 2 years ago. The laserdiscs, however, were sold on a *fledgling auction site* within a year of my move to the island by my little brother, without my permission, nor reimbursement for the sales. Needless to say, he has not been forgiven and most likely won't be.
That T2 SE was a special order that cost over $100, and took months to receive after ordering it at Suncoast in the mall.
All in all, it only took about a million years to pay it off, and probably ended up costing me close to $50,000+- what with Sears' interest rate. But for the use/abuse it withstood, the thousands of miles some of it has traveled, and the fact that some of it is still in use today - totally worth it.
It consisted of:
Sony 27" Flat Screen Trinitron
Sony STR-D990 Receiver
Pioneer CLD-M301 5 CD Changer / Laserdisc Player
Sony VCR with S-Video Output
Bose Acoustimass 5 Series II (main)
Bose Center Channel
Polk Audio Monitor Series II (surround)
Nintendo 64 (added in 1997)
and tied it all together with that fancy Monster Cable
Laserdiscs:
Basic Instinct (Widescreen)
Terminator 2 Special Edition (widescreen with gatefold cover and signed letter from JC, himself))
Cool World (Widescreen)
and a few others that aren't instantly popping into mind
That set-up followed me for almost a decade, through various apartments, houses, house parties, etc. and never once quit.
In 1999, I moved here to the island. Once I got settled in, I trucked (over the course of several trips in carry-on luggage LOL) the Sony receiver and all of the speakers. The VCR, I gave to my grandmother, and was in use up until her passing last year. The TV is still in use in my parents' house in the grandkids' play room. The laserdisc player is currently MIA, but I'm pretty sure it's still somewhere in my parents' house and will eventually be found and shipped here. That Sony receiver just finally gave up on me last summer. Those Bose and Polk speakers are still going strong, and now sound even better since they've been A + B-ed off that old Yamaha I bought to replace the Sony. The N64 is still with me, and is the only reason I bought this little Samsung 1080 TV 2 years ago. The laserdiscs, however, were sold on a *fledgling auction site* within a year of my move to the island by my little brother, without my permission, nor reimbursement for the sales. Needless to say, he has not been forgiven and most likely won't be.
That T2 SE was a special order that cost over $100, and took months to receive after ordering it at Suncoast in the mall.All in all, it only took about a million years to pay it off, and probably ended up costing me close to $50,000+- what with Sears' interest rate. But for the use/abuse it withstood, the thousands of miles some of it has traveled, and the fact that some of it is still in use today - totally worth it.
