The end of an era
I just had delivered a new Sony stereo which will replace an old decripit model that's occupied my bedroom for the past several years. It struck me that the speakers that I'll be tossing out at the transfer station this weekend have been with me for most of my adult life.
They're a pair of tower speakers with long-throw woofers that I bought when I was working for Radio Shack, which I did off and on for a couple of years in high school and immediately thereafter. They've been great speakers, but in recent years finally started showing their age as their grilles fell off and collapsed, and the material that attached the speakers to their mounts slowly corroded into dust.
I'm a bit sad to see them go, but the fact is that they're old and long past the point of needing to be replaced. But the good news is that I've replaced them with a much more compact, much more robust 5.1 surround speaker system that I'm sure will deliver much better quality sound. And occupy much less space.