I recently went nuts and decided to redo my setup once again. I've been doing this frequently since I decided to buy the Mac mini and it's now, with these changes, at a point where I feel like I can be happy. This latest modification followed my moving the 750GB External HDD up high, a shelf above the Mac mini and the VGA switcher, where the Hi-Fi box used to sit.

This time, I decided I wanted to make full use of the superior Panasonic-powered audio of the Hi-Fi for everything as opposed to sharing audio duties between the Hi-Fi and the speakers in the monitor. I want the Mac mini, the Wii and (Soon) the Xbox 360 all to benefit from awesome sound. So, I moved the speakers out and around a bit so they flank the monitor. The major issue was finding a home for the Hi-Fi box itself. After much deliberating and failed experimentation, I opted to put it beside the Xbox 360's eventualy home.

That is to say, it's on the bottom "shelf" of the desk. Where printers often go...That might or might not explain that. Anyway, I unhooked the splitter from the back of the monitor and plugged it into the aux port on the Hi-Fi. Now, that's a 2-way splitter so currently it only has the Mac mini and the Wii plugged into it (Wii via an RCA to 3.5mm converter). However, I'm going to order an additional, identical splitter on Friday. That will split one of the ports on the existing splitter allowing me to plug the Wii and the 360 (Also using an RCA to 3.5mm convereter, I'm ordering the second one at the same time as the second splitter) into that.

So far, this is an unqualified success. iTunes sounds freaking awesome and I have Home Theatre qualty (Though not class - no surround but meh) audio for EyeTV. I've never heard The Simpsons sounds so madly, insanely good.

Additionally, I'm buying a Wireless Access Point. This sub-£30 wonder will sit happily behind m monitor, connect wirelessly to the BT HomeHub and serve internets to two Ethernet ports. One will eventally give my Xbox 360 access to Xbox LIVE, the other is going to make my Internet Phone work. My Internet Phone is awesome by the way, I'm using a Cars one. Yes, my desk phone is Lightning McQueen and he's going to be serving me up VoIP.

Happy days people.