 Oh boy, this ought to be fun....
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Best Buy to offer Custom Home Theatre Installations?
I betcha the two 15 year olds show up at the doorstep with a whole beetle full of Monster cables and extended warranties.
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And cube speakers that are audiophile quality. 
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ROTFL
Hey they do sell Klipsch 
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Didn't Best Buy buy Magnolia? And doesn't Magnolia already do HT installs?
I confoos.
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LOL! I went there recently to buy a cheap little subwoofer (a Yamaha YST-SW215) for my bedroom setup and simply asked if the sub had speaker connections in the back. Without checking, the guy (whom BB hired to work in the speaker dept.) asked me what type of receiver I had. I told him that it was a Rotel integrated amp, but it didn't have a sub output on it. He said it probably wouldn't work because I would need a receiver that had a subwoofer output on it. Then, as he went away for a bit, I checked the back of the sub myself and found that it did indeed have speaker level connections. So when he returned, I pointed them out and he said, "well, you can try it that way, but I've never seen a sub hooked up with those". All I said was, "yeah, it'll do", but it really pissed me off. I can't believe they would hire that guy to try and sell speakers for them! I'm afraid that these are the type of people they will hire to do installations.
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Never fear, I'm somewhat considering trying to become an installer myself. Mainly for the know how, definitely not the money. It'll be part of my renaissance man vow. Then I'll be a welder, a painter, a window tinter, an engineer, a multi-linguist, and architect.
And I know what sub with speaker level connections should look like. Just don't let me cut out your drywall...
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Cutting out drywall is the easy part. Making it look like you never did it... that's the part where skill comes into play.
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If their home theater installations are as ridiculously priced as their geek squad, it's going to cost a mint.
$160 to set up wireless, not including hardware. That is a chunk of change.
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In reply to:
I'm afraid that these are the type of people they will hire to do installations.
Careful, last timeI posted I was screwing with a Best Buy salesman, I got branded a troll.
Course, aesthetically, I kind of fit the part...
Bren R.
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the part of the troll or the salesman?
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