Having ditched the old and crappy combo stereo thing that I bought when my even older component system started to fray and I didn't have money to ugrade, we've been reduced to listening to our music through the TV. This is not ideal. In fact our tests (we being Choice in this instance) show that the sound on most digital tvs is not good. Anyway, over the weekend we bought a new AV receiver with all the connections we're likely to want for a long time. So it's
this one. We hooked it up to my now very old but originally quite good speakers and the sound quality is so much better. .
Now we just need to save up for new speakers and a good DVD player. I doubt that we'll go for the full 7.1 speakers in our small and far from ideal setup, but certainly new front speakers and a subwoofer.