First HiFi for a teenager?

[RoA]

Not directly related to kids but some close friends, a couple had no music when they moved a decade and a half ago. I gave them a pair of Mordaunt Short MS20i Pearls and Denon amplifier/CD player for which I had no use. Sounded good and was appreciated or so I thought. When we visited a month later it was gone and a bluetooth speaker had replaced the above. It didn't fit in and was too complicated. To the tip it went not even a charity shop. That probably goes for 99.99999999 of the population.

 

[DCarmi]

I am certain that some of my kids who are now in the 20 and 30s have no idea how to work my hifi and would struggle with the Wiim Pro and amp (if they were remotely interested):

• Find the streamer on the network (called Wiim Hifi) to stream to - what is a Wiim?
• Check if the amp is switched off or on standby
• Set the amp output to the correct optical - why are there so many output things and why coaxial and not the network one ?
• Switch on the speakers, if I've been using headphones - do we need to push both the A and B buttons and why is there not a button on the remote for this? In fact why does the amp not know headphones are plugged in or not?
• CD player has a physical on-off rocker switch hidden under the front edge - How retro!
  

Or they could just use the smart speaker or Bluetooth to the soundbar or the TV itself...

They are not dim and have technical skills ranging from decent to "puts-me-to-shame". They just live in a different world to the one I grew up in. In fairness, a teenager these days is likely to have better quality audio than, I did at that age and probably access to a vast catalogue of music.