This is my take also: if I ever spend money on good audio, I’ll be stuck spending lots of audio for the rest of my life. I’d rather live in the dark and by cheap second hand stuff that’s probably not great than never enjoy music again without spending thousands.
I wanted a sound bar, and got some affordable ones.
Then I went into budget audiophile.
Got a cheap Sony receiver and 2 bookshelf speakers. Got the whole gig for $175 total. Beats any kind of sound bar.
Did a Sonos test in store and really could hear much difference despite being much cheaper and completely offline.
Now my wife is telling me to go Sonos because it looks better with her aesthetics.
Told her I’m not getting anything that requires an account software to run. Guess we’re going to stick with bookshelves for a while
This is my take also: if I ever spend money on good audio, I’ll be stuck spending lots of audio for the rest of my life. I’d rather live in the dark and by cheap second hand stuff that’s probably not great than never enjoy music again without spending thousands.