Months and months after moving into my new digs I have finally reassembled my tower of power is back in business.

I speak, of course, of my gaming rig... the center of my entertainment world is whole once more. It's taken me months to find all of my cables, power cords, power bricks, games, and then the time to put the sonofabitch together. I put the most important systems on the TV to start [being the next-gen boxes] but the PS2, Xbox, and PSP sort of kinda languished in a box over in the corner of the room. A dimly lit corner of the room to make it even more pathetic. I would have had a GameCube in the tower as well but it was given to Pandalicious in hopes that it might lure her away from WoW. It did not.

So what's in my gaming rig you might ask? Well, in what has now become the "Tower of Older Power" we have the Xbox with slight modification, a PS2, PSP, Gameboy SP, 6-input S-Video switch, XB360 quick-charge stand, digital cable box, and games awaiting a trip to the local Gamestop for trade in.

In the main arena I have my PS3, XB360, and Nintendo Wii tucked away under my 42" TV from LCD Olevia Yes, the NinJa is back in action people. Now some of you may have noticed that I mentioned a bunch of consoles that have online gameplayability, [hehe, I made a new word] but didn't mention how I have them networked... it's because I don't yet. Right now, the Wii connects to my existing wireless network and my XB360 and PS3 are share a connection from an Apple Airport Express. Until I decided on a good ethernet switch for these guys to share it will stay that way.

Now all I need is enough furniture so that the gaming parties can begin. What about you guys? What do your rigs look like? What would you like to add? Wanna send us a picture? I'm putting some larger images of my rig in the gallery, so check it out.

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I did, and dude it sounded AWESOME. I've just come from the Klipsch booth and I have to say the home theater setup I played with may be one of the sweetest little things I've seen yet. [today that is, ;)]

This right here is sleek as hell and has more response than it should. The sound is like you would expect from Klipsch, clear, sweet, and with enough boom to fill up your room. This is really surprising given the fact that the setup is a 2.1 system. The one thing I have learned from all the audio that I have been listening to is that 5.1 can be overrated. Bear with me now. I always thought that 5.1 or even 7.1 was the holy grail of home theater setups. I want to be bombarded with a wall of sound, a wall so dense that when I talk trash to the poser that my player character is currently tbaggin' and can almost feel his pain. Taste my nutz you bastid!

Sorry, that wasn't called for. I shall move on.

I hit the show floor this morning with a plan: to dive into home audio and not come up for air until I hit some speakers solution that didn't kill my wallet but might lead to my becoming deaf. And while the best "blow your ass out of the water" setup comes from a company called Earthquake [they started in car audio] it unfortunately was a bit more the type of product that would appear in some rap dudes place on MTV Cribs and not in my tiny little apartment in VA. No, the better options that I found come from Klipsch and possibly a company called Paradigm. I only a small preview at the Cinema 5.1 home theater in a box from Paradigm so I can't speak on just how bad it is, but the Klipsch set I did play with on the floor and I can tell you honestly: It doesn't suck.

Now, it ain't cheap [coming in at $1299] but if you already dropped a grand on gaming systems you might as well get an easy to configure, booming bass havin', sleek looking, small footprint using system from Klipsch. It by far has the richest sounding 2.1 speaker setup that I have seen. Oh yeah, if you know what it means, the subwoofer is class D and fires downward.

Drool rags at the ready.

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