It still works?

One of the pleasures of home-ownership in the particular house that I bought is that the attic is a wide-open space and wiring is easy. Okay, you still have to pull cable and fish around for it, but movement is easy and you can make a plan that works well and keeps the future climbing at a minimum. I'm doing the cable and phones in a star pattern, so that all of the ends are in one place, no daisy chains like in days of old. You could easily do that with speaker wire.

I will be running some speaker wire to a couple of rooms in the house and a line out to the garage. I have my father's great receiver (older but still digital and has tons of connectors on the back). I'll use the A/B speakers switch so I can listen to it out in the garage or in the back of the house. I am a rover when it comes to television--I treat it more like radio. So if I put a movie on I can run it through the receiver and listen to the sound track as I work and occasionally stick my head in the room with the telly to take a look at the picture.

SRS