[jyl]

Browsing CL. Lots of random speakers turning up. If it's not "interesting" then my budget is more like $150...

Seeing Polk towers for $100. Two 6.5" drivers, single dome tweeter, vent.

Klipsch R41 bookshelfs for $100. Klipsch floor speakers seem to start around $180, I do like the look of the horn tweeters.

No interesting Cerwin-Vegas turning up locally.

Lots of JBL listed, hard to weed out the PA stuff.

Speaker kits start around $290 for a floor set.

I'm no longer an audiophile, but do think it would be cool for the kids to have a decent, and most important, interesting system if we can do it on a small budget.

I'll give them my old NAD 5120 turntable. My dad is going to give them an old receiver, specs unknown.

I'm guessing 90% of the listening will be from an iPhone or laptop jacked into the receiver.

My son was listening to some Chet Baker just now, so it's not all rap and hip-hop. He tells me Chet Baker gets sampled a lot in "lo-fi", whatever that is.