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I have my old receiver in my office with some small speakers I hooked up with very thin cables, I didn't have anything else, and I don't listen to much here.  They work.

I wouldn't worry about it.

Your ears are too old to hear it anyway... 

I was pretty into stereo stuff in high school.  I built up my system through timely pawn shop acquisitions, as well as some creative "borrowing" from my dad, when he stopped using his own equipment. When I went off to college I replaced it all with newer flashier stuff that was lower in quality, and didn't last, but over the past few years I unearthed all of it that was still in my parents' guest bedroom closet.

I still have my newish home theater system driving the audio for the TV, plus all streaming music.

But separately, in my "parlor" I have set up my old Technics stereo amplifier/receiver (which seems to be considered "decent" by modern audiophiles that are trying to replicate vintage systems), some pretty basic Boston Acoustics floor speakers, and a super nice Garrard turntable that's actually my dad's but shhhh don't tell him.  I also have a TEAC equalizer with the cool bouncy LEDs but honestly those really don't help the signal, and typically make it worse.  And then there's my Sony dual tape deck.  It still works,  but I only have a couple of cassette tapes anymore.  Most of them died in my car in the Texas heat, over the years.

And of course, lamp cord speaker wire to connect it all up.

Edit: OH, and my original single-disc Sony CD player, too.  Still works great.  I probably went through 2 or 3 multi-disc changers in the ensuing years that all flaked out and died.

What’s The Worst Car Myth? (jalopnik.com)

Speaking of myths, the only one they offer is changing your oil every 3,000, which is a myth with modern cars, I agree.

One of the biggest to me is that higher octane gasoline is "better" for your car than what the owner's manual recommends.

What’s The Worst Car Myth? (jalopnik.com)

Speaking of myths, the only one they offer is changing your oil every 3,000, which is a myth with modern cars, I agree.

That was one of my pet peeves. We live in a rural area were a majority of the time, we are driving at highway speeds. That means that the engine is using less revolutions to travel a mile than one that is driven in city conditions where the speeds are slower and a lot of time is spent not moving with the engine still running. 

As such, when the standard recommendation was a 3,000 mile oil change, I was changing my oil at about 5,000 - 6,000 miles depending on how broke down the oil appeared to be. This also coincided with tire rotations. 

Now our vehicles give a Percentage of Oil life remaining and seems to work out to around 7,000 - 8,000 miles. This is perfect for me as I will change the oil and rotate tires at the same time. Just did the wife's car this past weekend. 

When I use the home theater system, it's for watching movies, sports, or playing music for parties inside/outside (I have a second amp that drives all of the outdoor speakers around the pool, fire pit, etc.).

When I'm using my "hifi" system, it's always in an "audiophile" setting. I'm playing one of my my hundreds of vinyl LP albums from the past, or some of the new stuff that I've bought, remastered pressed on 180g vinyl.

All of that's a little hoity toity, but it's also fun.  I'd forgotten how enjoyable it is to just sit and listen through an entire record album, side a and b. 

I think most folks are the same, the value of a real "hifi" sound system today for most of us is minimal, aside perhaps from movies.  I do listen on rare occasion, but it's a lot less often than when I was younger.  It seems like a waste of time in a sense.

Not that I don't waste time.

I use synthetic and the oil change light comes on about every ten months, we don't drive much.  City driving used to be terrible for oil before we had FI engines because the carbs would go rich every time you took your foot off the gas.