HiFi at home in 2023 - what to buy?

Not sure if they still make these or if you can find a used pair, but they have a really nice sound for a bookshelf speaker. You will need a sub of some sort.

I am sure there are tons of choices in Sweden and around to get some good gear. I would look at gently used gear to help keep the cost down and you can get something better as well. 

By amp, I assume you need an integrated amp that may have a built in phono stage to handle your turntable. So brands like Rega, Project, Denon, NAD should fit the bill nicely. As far as speakers again, you should be able to find some gently used shelf speakers and get some stands for them, spend the most you can on speakers!!!

Check on eBay and sites like that as well online audio sites that cater to your region...

One more note ... for the turntable ... make sure you have a good quality cartridge, as it makes a huge difference on a LP ... and it reminds me of the very early days of the German Hi Fi thing, when they had their quadraphonic albums, which my Stanton Cartridge could pick up but my roommate that had a much lesser system at the time, could not hear as much as I did, although he made up for it at the radio station with massive professional setup and then some, complete with a studio with which a lot of commercials were done and developed. Those TD and KS albums and a few others of classical music, were ... really far out ... and the music exploded in your ear in a manner that not even a movie can give you, even if it is Kubrick! And I saw it at the old Cinerama Dome, with extra large screen and sound everywhere including under your chair!

If you can make your listening experience half that quality ... you got something worth while and then some! Later, seeing Star Wars with sound under your chairs in a regular theater, just was not that good, since PF had already done the music moving from left to right. right to left, all over the center and everywhere, and in the theater (for SW) it was used for a couple of the space units running by ... towards the last portion of the film ... it wasn't even exciting. It was rather cheesy I would think!

But again, remember, that the "quality" needs to be distributed so one item does not hurt the other ... so to speak.

I am an audiophile in the true sense of the word, meaning that I accept the scientific fact that modern digital technology is much more accurate than analog technology. Having said that, the same science also shows that analog technology doesn't necessarily sound worse just because it is technically inferior. Often it sounds better because the way it distorts the signal (harmonically, as in tube amplifiers) actually sounds good to most people.

I agree that the speakers are probably most important. Currently I'm leaning towards a very minimal amp, something like this:

Now, this is of course a dirt cheap amp. But as many have said, modern chip-based amps have become insanely good compared to 30 years ago. So my strategy could be to get such an amp - maybe not exactly this one, but something slightly better - and to put the rest of the budget (I want to spend about $1000 max) on speakers.

What say you? 

Oh, yes, I guess my Magnat hybrid amp or music center recommendations were/are thus out of scope. I'm not at all familiar with chip based amps (never really explored the technology, nor listened to some of those chip based amps) so it would be dishonest of me to give some kind of opinion about those. If possible, get some test listening sessions, preferably with the speaker set of your choice, but I'm not sure if that is possible in that price range...

Remains my recommendation regarding Magnat speakers; I guess they're well available in Sweden, probably also on the second hand market. The (UK version of) whathifi.com site José referred to is a trustworthy review site that can give you some good ideas of quality of brands and sound, but in the end your own ears and brains are the best judge!

I've heard several Class D amps, albeit at a much higher price point and build quality. I've found most of them to have a clinical sound, which can mate well for a digital setup. The main positive for class D amps is they run very cool since you don't have a large power transformer, compared to the transformer in my power amp which is 1.3kVA size....it's a big phuquer 

And as always use your ears (and wallet) to get what you like.... 

Totally tubular dude!!