Do your Cables migrate thru your system?

Seems like an all too common trait of our "sickness". At least we're all showing the same symptoms : ) Sean
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I also have a few little orphaned systems (systems I started and decided not to finish). I had a little home theater setup for a bedroom. Turned out I never used it. So off to the chopping block it went. Sold the receiver, tv. I cannabilized the cables as I needed them at the time, but now most of them have been demoted to the (sniff) closet. I've actually given away some of the decent cables to friends who are just starting their system. Nice S-video cable to the friend who bought my tv, decent optical link to the friend who bought the receiver. I'm trying to sell the speaker set to another friend of mine. To him I will gift one of my unused Transparent coax digital cables (I have two!). Normally I keep the really good stuff because I never know when I might need it. But now I believe this is getting out of hand. I literally have two closet shelves full of unused interconnects, digital cables, video cables and speaker wire. Its like a mini parts warehouse. But hey, I don't have a problem or anything. I can stop hoarding this stuff any time I want. :)

Yes, I guess the do migrate through my system(s). I will always try new cables first in the Pre-Power Link, then the CD player, Tuner, then through a second system in my Den/Computer Room. I do not care enough about my HT system to warrant expensive cables (I am using decent ones), so left overs get sold if they no longer have a place in the two systems.

Having seven systems means plenty of requirement for IC's and PC's. So yeah, I demote wire on an on-going basis whenever I can. Only exception is stuff I can't re-use due to length or termination, in fact, put some speaker wire and IC up for sale today to avoid the three-closets-full-of-wire syndrome. And no, I'm not going to put together another system, I've run out of space and ideas. Jeff

My interconnects follow the same migratory pattern outlined in your message...initially from the source to the preamp-amp and then upstairs to the two-channel HT system. If they ultimately get bumped from the latter, they go to one of my three kids for their systems. Same with the speaker cables.