Music in the kitchen

I imagine most people who spend a significant amount of time in their kitchen, have contrived to get their favorite music in there with them. In my previous kitchen I had mounted a set of speakers on the wall. My stereo system was in the living room, so I drilled a hole in the floor, behind it, and dropped a long length of speaker wire down to the basement. I than connected the wire to my receiver, and ran it across the basement ceiling to the hole I had drilled in the kitchen floor near the wall, where it was run up to the speakers. Anything played on that system could be heard in the kitchen. I used a wire cover kit to hide the wires, and make everything look neat.

My present kitchen setup isn't nearly as much work. The speakers came with the desktop computer I purchased five years ago. I liked the speakers I used with the old computer, so I put these new ones in a closet, and forgot them. It was only last year that I found them, and placed them on top of the refrigerator. These speakers don't have a separate volume control for the Sup-woofer, so I can turn them up only so loud, without getting distortion in the bass, but the sound is OK if kept below that distortion level. When I am in there I simply connect them to my mp3 player, so programing is completely under my control. If you have something interesting to say about your kitchen audio, feel free to leave a comment, and read more about "MP3ing out loud" at my Squidoo lens.