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I'm not sure if this is worth posting about, but I just re-setup my long running speaker system; two of these rad Klipsch speakers and a subwoofer the size of big toaster oven or tiny microwave. (with a little Bluetooth doohickey)

These speakers must be pretty old, 2008? I remember getting a replacement fuse from radio shack.

And small speakers have gotten a LOT better in the past 10 years or so. Phones, laptops, those JBL mini-boomboxes - they all produce a LOT of good, often deep sound. I'm not a huge surround sound wonk (probably won't be until we do VR - with a movie, the PICTURE is in front of me, why shouldn't the sound be) but there is something great about stereo, about being in the middle of the sound. And a subwoofer with a bit of kick is nice too.

But it reminds me of this quote:

This, here," Rat said, indicating another giant piece of wooden furniture, "is a free-standing Fluchtzbesser turntable. Inside that wooden cabinet is an eleven-hundred-pound piece of granite. Yes, sir, this is about the finest hi-fi ever assembled in the city of Baconburg."
"And it only has the one speaker?" Winston Bongo asked. Rat gave Winston a sideways look.
"Stereo is for sissies," she said.