The latest:   
      
      
      
   I've discovered that I can get center channel - for a while -   
   by moving the speaker wire around in the center ch   
   connector on the receiver.  Last night I stripped off an   
   extra long length of wire, so as to bend it over to double   
   the thickness.   
      
      
   That worked - last night.  This morning I turned it back on,   
   and got center for about ten minutes before it cut out again.   
   I fiddled with it some more, and discovered that by having the   
   speaker wire(16AWG by the way) *barely in* the connecting   
   terminal, with the locking tab left up, I get center pretty   
   consistently.  If I pushed the positive in all the way - NO   
   center.  If I jiggled it - intermittent center.  So we'll   
   see how long it produces center with the positive barely hanging   
   in there.  Different times of day, the center works, other times,   
   not.   
      
      
   My original RX-515, which is still in my cellar, is definitely blown   
   center, at the component level. No amount of jiggling or   
   doubling over the copper strands is gonna pass sound through   
   the center speaker with that thing.   
      
      
   And the sad part of all this is JVC is OUT of the home audio   
   business!  Here they had a great mid-price surround-sound   
   receiver for mid-1990s,  ample power, connections for TWO   
   tape loops(great because I have an EQ on one and my   
   tape deck on another), and a phono input.   
      
      
   I couldn't give two shits about HDMI inputs, bluetooth, and X.1   
   digital surround if I can't hook all of my analog gear up to it!!   
      
      
   So I'm going to buy every remaining RX-515V out   
   there, at least just for parts interchangeability.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)