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casey is remote

I relish quite a bit in my room stereo setup, it's almost perfect.

Audio: Nice home radio, w/ analog tuning on both and radio. It also supports line-in for input. As well as line-out for output.

Sources:
1. Personal desktop
2.
3. (via my , connecting through for audio)

It's almost perfect. I have a manual, physical control in front of me for audio (I just turn the knob to change the volume, surprisingly nice to have a physical control for this!), and I can listen to all audio--my , broadcast , and even my --all through either the speakers OR my earbuds! I can also technically connect any device to the , meaning nearly any device I can run audio to. There are two major inconveniences with this setup:

1. I have to manually unplug my earbuds from the speakers. It doesn't sound too bad but the port is on the back of the speakers so I essentially have to either pick it up or turn it 90 degrees to access the line-out port

2. The audio delay between the and via can be abysmal. This is to be expected, but I don't see any way of mitigating this unless I use the 's line-out port (it happens to be my parents' btw). Which would mean even more cables in the back to unhook and wouldn't be worth that extra inconvenience (the delay is fixed by just disconnecting the from and reconnecting it).

This doesn't outweigh how convenient my setup has been so far, I'd like to try and find ways to mitigate these inconveniences when I have time though.