I think there is topic about listening gear. I am fan of good sound, even with noise. Not audiophile in a way that I would gear would take attention from listening itself. Equipment must be sort of simple and easy to use, but strong and good. No cheap plastic turntables, but real deal. Good amp and speakers that can handle both, quiet and LOUD listening. No mini-hifi, no bluetooth speakers. I don't really do "upgrades", but when something gets busted, I will get new. I had old good Marantz CD player that started to skip with long CD's. Otherwise very good, but was annoyed to start listen to 70+ min CD, being almost prepared that it might skip in the end. So bought new CD player that has played everything with no problems. Didn't want to spend 1500e for high end ultra hi-fi, but just decent good player. Tascam CD-200. Price merely 300 euro. Plays audio CDs, but also MP3 / and WAV files from disc. Not USB in. Tascam CD-200SB would have had USB input, but don't really listen to files so no need. I liked the Tascam CD-200 enough that when CD player at work stopped working, I bought another of this same. Tape decks are all decent plus recently serviced. I can't really think about using some sort of busted walkman to play noise tapes of current price range.
However, with current day bigger bluetooth speakers, one could easily argue that streaming noise from bandcamp to good speaker will be sounding probably better than any consumer level hi-fi system people normally had years ago.
