@ papercutcheeto
hahaha, I don't know what it's like overthere, but when you know your stuff, you can buy a really good amplifier, a set of fine speakers, a good cd player and a good record player for about 150 dollars. You just have to know where to look and what to buy.
Having an audioset that sounds really good doesn't have to be expensive.
It's a pity people are giving large amounts of money to buy speakers from sony or bose or some other piece of crap when the old AR's, JBL's and Infinity's are left to rot in the scrapyard. People like new and shiny stuff and tend to forget the fact that even back in the fifties they were able to make recordings that sound just brilliant. Not much improvement there. It just got smaller