This is a system I've been building on a modest budget for many years. I've kept it in my bedroom for myself until recently. Four good, student friends and I have leased a nice, big house for a couple years while we finish up at school. We have a dining area right in the middle of all of the shared living space downstairs that wasn't getting any use, so we decided to make it a sort of sitting/reading/talking/relaxing area with a couch, rocking chair, coffee table, etc. I finally figured that it was time to quit being stingy, and to let my system be enjoyed by the rest of the house. After all, we are all music lovers. I put it all in the new sitting room, and the space was an instant hit. Now, when we're all home in the evening enjoying a good beer and getting caught up, we're gathered around great music, not the TV. For our generation, having grown up glued to a television screen, our new listening space is like a glimpse back to a slightly simpler time, and we all love it.