I've got a motley bunch of audio equipment. A few Dennon Amplifiers because everything I've ever owned from them has worked flawlessly for ever. First component CD player I ever owned was Dennon and it lasted for 30 years of moves and constant use before I gave it away. My other decent turntable is a 70's Sanyo. I have a nice set of Paradigm speakers at the shop and total shit speakers hooked up to the TV. I don't watch the TV very often and it's good enough for the wife and kid. I have few junky garage sale turntables and amps around as backups if anything fails at the shop or at home. I should by a back up coffee brewer for the shop before I hoard old AV equipment but I guess I'm dumb like that. I feel like you have to spend significant money to get better modern audio equipment than you can get at garage sales or ebay. It's hard to find an affordable 2 channel amp let alone one with a phono preamp. Everything affordable is geared toward video multi channel, which I could care less about.