You might say this is in my blood... I started as a kid with a MAC-1700 and the Stereotech 3 speakers. By college, I'd added a Toshiba TT and a Nakamichi cassette deck. After a lot of miles, a move or two, marriage and college, the 1700 has been retired in favor of a 4100, and the Toshiba has morphed into Mr. Mc's old Thorens. Those clunker old Stereotechs kept going and going, but it was time for a change. Hence the XR-250s - the first two examples off the production line, in fact.

I finally finished the cabinet that holds it all, including a slideout for the turntable.

The shiny silver box is a dual core Athlon64X2 running Xubuntu linux.  The computer primarily provides web access in the living room for watching online videos and playing games.

[edit]I'd resisted for the longest time getting a BluRay player, since the upconverting Oppo 981 was brilliant, but its power supply ate itself. So I took the plunge and snagged an Oppo 103 BluRay player.

The BluRay player has finally come into its own since the Sony bit the dust and was replaced with an absolutely stellar Vizio 65" 4k LCD TV. Couldn't be happier with the new video setup.