I have been spending quite a bit of time sitting and watching TV. I enjoy it. It is not a guilty pleasure. I simply like TV. With a hundred something channels I can usually find something to keep me entertained. Sometimes I even learn something. While watching TV I am also looking at the shelves that my TV sits on. And the wall that the shelves are aligned with. And the pictures and things on the wall. Sometimes I just stare at the one thing. Other times I am taking it all in. The past few weeks I have been starring at the TV sitting on shelves. When I bought a center channel speaker I mounted it to the wall above the TV. The mount I bought separately allowed me to angle the speaker down a few degrees to compensate for the added height as a result of being mounted above the TV. It sounded fine. It looked fine. It worked. Then one afternoon while I was watching a movie my neighbor started banging and passing notes under my door. Eventually ringing my bell(which is broken)and asking me to.....At which point I closed the door in her face before she could get her words out. I didn't think I was listening at a loud enough volume to disturb her at 4:30pm on a Sunday. But apparently I was. I do acknowledge that mounting the speaker to the wall was not the best way to keep sound out of her apartment. I know a little bit about this stuff. So I figured if I could isolate the speaker from the mount and the mount from the wall that I would achieve a lower level of sound transmission. I thought about how I was going to do it. This took weeks of thought while sitting on the couch in the chair or at the desk. All the ways I knew of isolating a speaker wouldn't work in this little application. Finally I thought about using some material between the speaker and the mount and the mount and the wall. Knowing that bolts from both would still physically couple the speaker, mount and wall, but figuring doing something was better than dealing with my neighbor. And besides I always like a project. So I went to Home Depot and pretty much found nothing. No sorbothane sheets to be found at the home center. I finally would up using a the foam rubber pad from a sanding block. But I knew this wasn't going to be enough. I would have put the center channel speaker under neath the TV. But there was no shelf space. The shelf unit was configured with 2 shelves. The top shelf held the TV the second shelf held the rest of the gear. The sub woofer was on the floor underneath the shelves. I needed another shelf. I started looking at audio/video shelving systems. Most of which were horrible crap. A few were OK. I eventually found a unit I liked. Simple square steel legs that stack directly on top of one another. Need another, just stack it on top of the one you have. Cool. I emailed the site and inquired about availability. I get a response back that says yes, they do have it in stock, what style shelf did I want so they could give me an accurate quote. I choose a black shelf to go with the black frame. Other options included 2 types of wood and 2 styles of glass. When I get the quote back the price had doubled from what I thought it would be. The shelves were not included at all in the original listed price. Too much money for a TV stand. Scratch that idea. I did think about it for a while but finally said to myself that this was more than even I was willing to spend on a piece of TV furniture. So back to starring at the shelves, and the TV and the wall. To make a long and pointless story have no point I wound up buying some more shelves and legs for the existing shelf system I have. Now I have 3 shelves instead of 2. The TV is on the top shelf. The center channel speaker and the Playstation are on the second shelf. The rest of the audio/video gear is on the third shelf, with the sub woofer still on the floor underneath it all. I spent 2 hours today disassembling, reconfiguring, and the reassembling the whole mess of it. I basically woke up at 4:00pm today. got out of bed and got dressed. Bought the paper and then had 2 slices and a coke before heading to Sears in search of a new power strip. When I got back from the supply run I ripped it all apart and eventually got it all back together again. I even hooked up and old Ipod dock and charger I had laying around for that clean no headphone cable look. That has been my day. That and I finished transferring all of the multi track drives from a tour last year onto 1 big drive. I had three 120 gig drives that I transfer ed to one 500 gig drive. The first computer drive I had was a cassette drive attached to a Vic 20. I just spent 15 minutes trying to find the storage capacity of the cassette drive. I found a lot of sites about old computers and a few Commodore sites but none had the info I was looking for. I wanted it so I could figure out how many Commodore cassette drives it would take to fill a 500 gig hard drive. Just curious. Now Just tired. I also plastered the holes in the wall that were left when I removed the speaker mount from the wall. My plastering is getting quite good. As I told a friend earlier today,"I drill holes and bolt things to my walls the way some people use tape and thumb tacks."