Pricing a new system

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Originally Posted by crackinhedz

well, you would probably be running an HDMI cable from your cable box to the receiver, this will allow you to play the cablebox audio through your receiver speakers.

Also if you connected the red/white RCA cables from the cable box directly to the TV, you could listen through your TV speakers without needing the receiver for audio.

Thats what I thought you were asking? (to be able to listen through your tv speakers?)

I gotcha! I would rarely, if ever, find a need to listen to the TV speakers. Always going through the surround.