Mine is simply my desktop computer connected to a Vizio soundbar.
Mine is [simply] a portable Jawbone Jambox with a Bluetooth connection to my phone.
I love having portable music. I can’t imagine having those huge (and hugely expensive) speaker systems that were so popular in the 70s.
Not much here. We have a CD player as a built-in thing in our kitchen, with speakers in the ceiling of the kitchen, dining room, and master bedroom. But the system is kind of underpowered for the 10 speakers it drives. With my hearing loss I need to turn music way up, so I don’t use it.
Over-the-ear Bose headphones are what I use 90% of the time, with earbuds the remaining.
I got rid of all my traditional equipment and now have 4 rooms of Sonos speakers, controlled by iPad, iPhone or whatever. I’m sure I’m giving up some fraction of ultimate audio quality, but it’s a fair trade for getting rid of the wires, amps and bluetooth streaming devices. I listen to a whole lot more music as compared to the before scenario.
Down in my lair, a radio/3- CD/twin cassette player much like this:
https://www.worldwidevoltage.com/sony-mhc-rg190-3-cd-double-cassette-mini-stereo-shelf-system.html
Main floor, record player, amplifier, twin cassette player, CD player, regular speakers on the floor.
I dread my cassette players breaking since I have music I can’t get anywhere else.
Receiver: Onkyo 3500 5.1
Speakers: Onkyo subwoofer & center/front:ELAC B6/rear:Polk OWM3
Blu-ra/CD player: Sony UHPH1
Headphones: Sennheiser HD 559
I get pretty decent sound from my setup but I have to use headphones if I want to crank it up–either that or take my music on the road and listen to it on the stock stereo system in my CX-5.
I have an Onkyo TX-NR727 home theater receiver with a couple of Sony speakers in front, a subwoofer, and four surround sound speakers installed in my ceiling. (I had a buddy who started a home electronics installation company who helped me out with a good discount while I helped him out by giving him my business.)
I have a 55" 4k TV and mostly watch movies on my Xbox One or desktop computer connected to the receiver. I could watch DVDs or Bluray through the Xbox, but I rarely do. I don’t listen to CDs and I’m not sure the Xbox will play them (but it probably can, right?). Anyway, I don’t have a CD player, tape player, laserdisc or anything else. Just the receiver, TV and internet. I listen to a lot of music on Spotify through the receiver’s built in app. I still haven’t replaced my record player since my house fire three and a half years ago, despite having a pretty decent collection of vinyl records. But that will be my next home entertainment purchase.
Streaming music and video used to give me occasional hiccups when the home theater was connected over WiFi, but I ran an Ethernet cable through the wall recently and now it works flawlessly. I have a large antenna in the attic and get a lot of over the air channels now, but no cable or satellite.
Up to about 9 months ago it was either the Tivo / TV tuned to Spotify, or a phone/iPad and a bluetooth speaker.
Then Mr. Athena got a bug up his butt, and now we have a kick-ass audio system with a turntable, big speakers, and one of these hooked up to a Chromecast audio for streaming. And I’m sure an amp. I don’t know all the details, but I do know that I now have a sound system that sounds like the stereos of yore instead of tinny bluetooth or muffled 20-year-old 5.1 system hooked to the TV.
A stereo FM clock radio next to my bed with an iPhone dock and an additional input for a CD player or another mp3 player.
I have an 800W 5.1 system in the living room; it’s mostly for the video.
I have a 600W 5.1 system on my computer; I use it for recording, mixing, mastering and just generally listening to music.
I have a collection of about 20 BT speakers that I use with my phone, iPad and my computer. They range all the way from micro-speakers (size of a thimble) to full-on party speakers.
ETA: Oh, and my car has a 650W 4.1 system.
My main TV/entertainment system is from the '90s except the blu-ray that we haven’t used in ages. An NAD 7100 stereo receiver, Rotel amp (50 watts a side), B&W DM302 bookshelf speakers and some kind of Sony subwoofer. An Onkyo DVD player, Technics turntable, and Sharp VCR sit idle.
In my music/computer room I run the computer through a Presonus USB interface that goes into a little Mackie mixer and out to Emotiva Airmotiv 4s speakers and AudioTechnica ATH M50 headphones. I also have a Line6 Amplifi TT effects/amp modeler that also acts as a bluetooth portal running into the Mackie, as well as a stereo 1/8" line in for various devices.
By my chair I have Grado SR80e and AKG K240 headphones for laptop/ipad/phone listening.
Most of my equipment was purchased in the seventies and is still working fine - Sansui amp and tuner, Advent bookshelf speakers, and Pioneer turntable. The CD player is of a much more recent vintage. It’s been so long since I’ve used the dual cassette deck, I don’t even know if it still works, but the rest are going strong.
I should add, 99% of the time, the music source is mp3 files stored on an old WinXP box, pumped into the AUX port on the amp.
Oh, how I love my Sansui G5700. They just don’t make 'em like that any more. My speakers are Alesis studio monitors. I too play mp3s mostly from my Lenovo laptop, or music streamed from the internet. The setup produces clear, punchy, wonderful sound.
Sonos throughout the house. When we downsized to a much smaller house after retirement, I got rid of my component systems. Sure did love them over the years, though: Bose 901, Cerwin Vega D7E, NHT, B&W; great speakers for their times, and more amps/receivers/equalizers and other peripheral gear than I can recall, including an abortive attempt at Quadrophonic. I got as far as 5.1 before having to give it all up.
Ive heard only good things about the brand. Everyone seems to like theirs.
Hmmmmm
Define home audio. The reality is I have so many ways to listen to audio in my living room.
For actual audio systems, I have two different 5.1 sound systems.
Sounds redundant, but one is hooked up to the TV and the other one I hook up using a 3.5mm cable when I want to listen to MP3s from my phone or laptop. The input on the other one gives poor quality when I hook it up with a 3.5 jack.
I have both an amazon alexa and google home mini. I don’t use bluetooth speakers on them (because then the music gets so loud that they can’t hear me give commands). I use those a lot to listen to music and podcasts. I have a device to connect my alexa to one of my 5.1 speaker systems via bluetooth, but then the audio gets so loud that alexa can’t hear me.
On top of that I have a small external USB speaker I sometimes use with my laptop.
I have a Bluetooth speaker for when I’m doing dishes or something. Otherwise I don’t listen to much music at home, more often it’s in the car while commuting. I can appreciate a real dedicated stereo system but I’d never be able to just kick back and use it with the family around. And they’re always around.
Another vote for Sonos. Throughout the house and two outside speakers too Usually playing pandora, but it can do more
YouTube and a cheap set of external speakers.
There are endless radio stations that can be streamed, plus your personal digital library and other services, as mentioned. We usually have one of two jazz stations playing during our waking hours, one being local (KMHD) and the other the San Francisco station (KCSM). Our house sitter likes classical, so I have that one on tap for him. You can also stream different music to different parts of the house at the same time.