Our 30 year old stereo system was dying. One of the speakers quit working, the amp needed constant cleaning, the tuner was flaky. All and all, it needed to be replaced.

My first thought was to replace the speakers. They were Magnapans, which is a company that makes speakers out of plexaglass. At only two inches thick and 5 foot high, they were unusual. But, they had a fantastic sound to them.

But, Kathy pointed out that we needed to get a whole new sound system and not just the speakers. So, for Christmas, Kathy gave me a present which said “new sound system”.

After doing a little research on line at Best Buy, I discovered that surround sound systems have come down quite a bit in price from what they were a few years ago. This really got me excited about getting a new sound system. So, even though it was the day after Christmas, we headed to Best Buy.

An hour later, we returned home with a new receiver, 5 disk DVD player and 6 speakers.

Now, all I have to do is to figure out how to put it all together.