Way to go kweisner! Great guy for helping out like that! And +2's for all of you others too for being such helpful people.
One potential problem with denon's and spades is that some denon's (at least mine) have a little plastic shield around the speaker cable connector that would make it require a very small spade to work. Just make sure you get small spades if you go with spades. Some semi-sage advice: 1) before you turn everything on, re-check all the connections. 2) label the cables with little tags. It really does help if you start having to make changes. 3) buy those little plastic cable bundlers at radio shack to keep things clean ($2 for 25 or so), and 4) when you power the system up, make sure the volume is at zero, then slowly turn it up while keeping your hand near the power switch. This will allow you to shut it down if you start to hear static, or other problems.
I would buy at least a surge suppressor.
Have fun !
One potential problem with denon's and spades is that some denon's (at least mine) have a little plastic shield around the speaker cable connector that would make it require a very small spade to work. Just make sure you get small spades if you go with spades. Some semi-sage advice: 1) before you turn everything on, re-check all the connections. 2) label the cables with little tags. It really does help if you start having to make changes. 3) buy those little plastic cable bundlers at radio shack to keep things clean ($2 for 25 or so), and 4) when you power the system up, make sure the volume is at zero, then slowly turn it up while keeping your hand near the power switch. This will allow you to shut it down if you start to hear static, or other problems.
I would buy at least a surge suppressor.
Have fun !