I'm not sure most people even own a stereo anymore. In my day (caution - Old Fart at large) we didn't have PCs, all the guys compared turntables and amps, not video cards and monitors. Anyway...

I'm "re-building" my stereo setup in light of the new remastered Pink Floyd collection due out in a few months. The first question is: is there any difference in CD players? Does a $30 piece of poop spit out the same quality of binary goodness as a $250 Harman-Kardon? Is a 1 and 0 not a 1 and a 0 no matter who it is expressed at the source?

Also, does anyone here have Klipsh speakers? Thinking of getting a nice bookshelf set. Any speaker suggestions in general. I checked on some audio-freak sites but they all wail about $5000 speakers from companies I've never heard of. I'm looking for a "high-end" set of bookshelf speakers. I have a set of Bose 201s, and they are good, but I want something with more fidelity. I'll keep the 201s to build up a 5.1 system with the better speakers I get.

I have the cheap (though new) Yamaha surround sound amp. I don't know if it is worth getting a better one or if I should spend all of my limited cash on speakers.

Anyway, if there are any audiophiles in The Frontroom, would love to hear from you.