Seven point whut receiver? Sorry, I need "see spot run" and after I googled 7.1 I learned that this quickly gets complex, or
can get complex.
Ok, so it sounds like I lose that sort of home-grown switch thing. I had assumed that it was a sort of room control.
Here's more info. I walked around the house and took a sort of inventory. In addition to the subwoofer and the pair of altec lansings, there is a massive setup on the wall behind a piano that consists of three speakers, each of which is at least 18 inches in diameter. Sorry, the piano obscures most of the setup.
Then the hallway and what we call the "game room" both have a pair of generic-looking speakers that look like this. Or at least whatever is covering them is generic-looking, like this.
Then there's one altec lansing in the master bedroom. There may have been another, but it looks like it got ripped out of the wall or something. We already repair the drywall at this point.
So should I still look for a 7.1 receiver? Does it normally have enough speaker connections to deal with whatever it is I have? To Dad911's question I imagine our audio source would be a combo of old CD's (80's collection
) as well as whatever we can pull down online (e.g., spotify).