Since there's so much depressing stuff going on right now I thought it might be fun for everyone to sperg about audio for awhile. I'm very much in the market for upgrading my audio at some point, I don't know if it would be worth doing a speaker setup of some kind.
You might find this funny but I'm having to remember that yes I am living on my own now and I can do stupid shit like this. My only issue of course is that I often tend to game and relax at night, so it would probably pay off more to get some kind of really good quality wireless headphones.
I have a decent pair now, but they're cheapos and they often break because they're made from the crappiest plastic ever. At some point I want to get myself something nice and long lasting to have that premium sound experience. I wouldn't mind doing some gaming and such or testing my own audio on a speaker system too.
I'm veering towards maybe Logitech and Sennheiser brands generally.
I've been using these speakers for a few months now (gaming, watching videos, listening to music): https://en.creative.com/p/speakers/gigaworks-t20-series-ii
They are nicely compact, sound great, good build quality and are powerful enough to replace my old giant 90s Sony hi-fi system.
They come in a bigger version (https://en.creative.com/p/speakers/gigaworks-t40-series-ii) but you can't really max the T20 out as computer speakers or they'll blow your ears out. Maybe if you want to listen to music in a big room.
Can't say much about headsets. I have a 7.1 headset and the only thing I can say for sure is that headsets in general suck for longer periods of time and surround is utterly pointless.
I've got the T40 and they do ok. Still not as good as back in the days when I had a dedicated subwoofer though, but they're perfectly fine for an all in one package.