A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (1998)
I love the cool old audio gear!<p>For the last 4 or 5 years, I have gotten heavily into the audio hobby. I&#x27;ve got to say, it&#x27;s one of the most enjoyable hobbies I&#x27;ve ever taken up.<p>I know &quot;audiophiles&quot; get a bad rap with their needlessly expensive speaker cables, but I assure you 99.9% of hobbyists you&#x27;ll find online are <i>vehemently</i> opposed to that kind of snake oil garbage.<p>I also assure you (from one engineer to another) that the matter of &quot;what sounds good&quot; is actually a fairly objectively understood thing. It&#x27;s not like art or wine tasting where things are almost entirely subjective.<p>Audio does not need to be an expensive hobby. Even if you&#x27;re buying new equipment, you can put together an absolutely fantastic system for a few hundred bucks.<p>The best part is that audio gear doesn&#x27;t become obsolete.‡ We as a human race have been building loudspeakers and amplifiers for about a century now and it&#x27;s a fairly mature art. A kickass stereo you build today will sound great in 10, 20, 30 years.<p>If you&#x27;re willing to do a little DIY work, you can buy DIY speaker kits that outperform commercial offerings 2-3x the cost. This is a great cheap ($100) starter kit with lots of reviews online, and a video on the product page that shows you how to put it together. Compares well with $300-$500 commercial speakers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parts-express.com&#x2F;c-note-mt-bookshelf-speaker-kit-pair-with-knock-down-cabinets--300-7140#lblSimilarProduct" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parts-express.com&#x2F;c-note-mt-bookshelf-speaker-ki...</a><p><i></i>If anybody has any questions about the hobby I&#x27;ll try my best to answer them or at least point you in the right direction.<i></i><p>---------<p>‡ It doesn&#x27;t become obsolete <i>for the most part.</i> Once you get into fancy digital codecs and home theater stuff, well, that&#x27;s still an area of rapid flux. But good old RCA red-and-white L&amp;R analog connectors (or the stereo mini jack, which is only a $3 adapter away) are still king in the world of stereo music.<p>But what about all the hi-def audio stuff you see these days? The good news and bad news is that it&#x27;s indistinguishable from good old 44.1khz&#x2F;16bit audio like you&#x27;d find on a CD. Those engineers were <i>very</i> smart; 44&#x2F;16 audio more than covers everything the human ear can hear.