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Whats in your second system?

Just curious as to the people who like myself have many thousands "invested" in their main system with all the latest tweaks, cables etc and also have a second or even third system.

Did you assemble that with the same love and care and dedication and costly tweaks?

Or did you throw something together from bargain bins or indeed your old leftovers and then sat back and thought...Wow this sounds really good!

And if so did that get you thinking on the main system...lol.

My second system cost way less than the speaker cables on my main system but I am constantly shocked at just how nice it sounds for such a no frills setup.

Linn Classic all in one
Tannoy 2 ellipse small floorstanders
20 year old (at least) Jensen 50w 8 inch sub.
Monster Cable 12/2 speaker cable bare wire ends.
Home brewed power cord just cos I had it laying around.

The Linn just sits on top of a chest of drawers with the Tannoys flanking the chest either side and the lil sub sitting behind the chest.

And it sounds darn good tbh!
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oldschool1948
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My first system is now my second system in my rec room:

Group 1:
McIntosh C31V A/V controller
McIntosh MC2600 power amp
McIntosh 7008 cd changer
McIntosh Tuner
TimeWindow 3 speakers

Group 2:
Pioneer SPEC4 power amp
SoundCraftsman SP4001 equalizer/pre
Boston Acoustic L1000 speakers

Group 3:
Rodec Professional DJ Mixer
Techniques SL1600MK2 turntable
Squeezebox Duet
Teac X10R reel-to-reel
dbx 224 noise reduction unit
dbx 3bx range expander

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sfseay
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Updated my second home office system:
Esoteric I-03 Integrated Amplifier
Esoteric N-05 Network Player/DAC
Still using and loving the Sony HAP-Z1ES Music Server and KEF LS50 Speakers
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noromance
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2nd system: 
Garrard 401 (rebuilt) in walnut/maple birch-ply plinth, 12" Jelco 750L (brass counterweight), Ortofon MC3 HOMC.
Croft 25 phono preamp with Telefunkens. 
EICO HF35 monos.
Spendor SP2/2 speakers.
REL Strata lll sub.
Sony DVD and 65" 4k TV.
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uberwaltz OP
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I know there are people who would die for some of these killer " second systems".
Love them!
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As I had decided for now that my main system was "completed" ( yes I know, we will see!), I decided to revamp the 3rd system in my daughter's room ( now at university in Alaska so I will use,lol).

So consists of.

Sony PS3 for CD, Spotify, Pandora, Netflix.
Jvc tt cw ortofon red cartridge.
Epos els3 bookshelf speakers.
NAD D3020V2 amp/dac. This v2 has a built in mm phono input as well as another analog aux input and toslink and spdif digital inputs,no Usb input though.

PS3 by toslink and Jvc tt into mm phono input.

Now about that spare analog input, maybe I can find space somewhere to add the Nakamichi bx100 tape player I have sitting idle......
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