Last year my wife and I moved into our "dream house" on the water. The previous owners were old...and got older. There wasn't a lot of maintenance done in the last few years, and when something didn't work, particularly of the electrical variety, their solution seemed to be "well, just cut the cord" where it happened to be. I have an amazing variety of randomly cut wires around the house and property -- telephone, speaker, romex, etc.
Anyway, there was an AV/home theater system installed probably in the late 90's and early 2000's that was state of the art at the time. It included one of those ceiling-mounted home theater Sony projection systems that weighs 500 pounds, a drop down wall-sized screen, some big ol' speakers in the cabinets, and other speakers around the house mainly in the ceilings.
We ditched the boat anchor Sony projector (didn't seem to work anyway) and got rid of the celling mounted screen roller (the screen itself was gone -- probably just yanked off at some point). What we are left with is a couple of odd pieces in the AV cabinet, the speakers around the house, and a rat's nest of speaker wire in the cabinet. If possible, my wife and I would like to take advantage of the speakers for the purposes of piping music around the house. Based on the pics below and what I describe, is this possible and what would I need to buy to test what works and what doesn't and whether the speaker infrastructure is serviceable? An amplifier and a receiver? Or should I just rip all this stuff out? Not looking for state of the art or high-end -- mainly just the ability to pipe music around.
Here's some sort of switch system that seems to be hooked to speaker wire (the rat's nest) in the cabinet.
Here's something called a "Faroudja." At one point I googled it and I think it was some sort of video enhancer, probably for the big Sony projection system.
Here's what I guess is a subwoofer in the cabinet.
Here's an example of a ceiling mounted speaker in the living room where the home theater was set up. There are several of these around the house in different rooms.
A little closer on the control:
My knowledge of AV equipment peaked in 1988 at "not much" and has gone down since then. Thanks in advance.