A feature of the original Raspberry Pi from the original on up to the
Raspberry Pi 4 was a 3.5 mm audio jack for sound output. I am told by
audiophiles that the Pi audio out ... wasn't very good, but to me it
sounded fine. With the Raspberry Pi 5 that audio jack was dropped. The
loss of that audio jack isn't an issue if you're connecting to a TV
via HDMI (use the TV audio), or if you don't need audio, or you use a
Bluetooth speaker.

But what if you want things more-or-less the way they were before? A
visit to Dollarama might be your answer. At Dollarama I ran across a
USB-C to audio cable for use with the likes of mobile phones for a
little less than $5. Of course the Raspberry Pi 5 uses USB A for its'
USB input/output connectors, but again for a little less than $5 you
can get a Dollarama USB A to USB C adapter. Connect the above together
and the Raspberry PI will see this as an audio device and be able to
pass audio out. Less than $10 (before tax) and you can be back almost
to the way things were before (okay granted this way you are down one
USB port :-( , still that isn't too bad in most situations). Going
beyond the above, Dollarama does sell an audio speaker (available in
white red or black) about the size of a beverage can with a 3.5 mm
input jack for $5 (plus HST) that can (in my case) run off an old
phone charger (I didn't try the Dollarama phone charger, but that
could be an option). Add in a Dollarama audio cable and you are good.
Now, I am not enough of an audiophile to be able to tell if all of the
above is good, but it does sound fine to me.

I thought that getting a complete, if VERY modest, computer audio
system at a dollar store is a bit wild and worth sharing.
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