Surround sound

So my dad was moving house this week, and as part of helping him I found a large box. Inside the box I found a surround sound system.

"Hey," I said to him. "There's a surround sound system in this box."

"Yes," he replied.

"Can I have it?"

"Yes."

It took a bit to set up (basically I had to work out if my little external extension to my soundcard was compatible with it, and it was, but I didn't have the right cables so now it's connected directly to my soundcard until I can get some coax or optical).

Anyway, I now have rather a lot of volume controls.

1. Normal Windows volume. This is adjustable by using a knob on my external soundcard thing.

2. WinAmp/VLC/game/other application volume, depending on what I'm running.

3. Headphones volume.

4. Surround volume. I can adjust this using a remote, but I likely won't.

Sometime when nobody else is home I'm going to turn them all up and play something loud.

When I wrote that I immediately thought of the giant amp from Back to the Future.

In other news, my dad's new house is really small, but it has two storeys and three toilets.