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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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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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gillatgh
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2nd system advanced to first as it's what I listen to most nowadays.
Rogue Pharaoh 
VPI Prime Super Scout 
Musical Fidelity A3CD (aged)
Oppo 103D
B&W 803D2
Transparent Ultra SC
Audioquest Big Sur ICS

I'm loving it
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Loving it and just enjoying the music is what this is all about!
Thank you
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Just an update on my second system which I am enjoying most days.

I did treat all connections in it to some TC paste about 3 weeks ago as I had done the main system and had plenty to spare.

Now my main system is centered around a listener being in the sweet spot of my sofa and as such sounds superb there but say walking around not so much.

The second system is in a much superior acoustic room and the small Tannoys benefit enormously from being against a wall and having bass output boosted.
This system really does not have a sweet spot as such and sounds pretty good anywhere in the room or even the next room.

So during the daytime if I am at home and better half at work it gets played a lot.
Evenings I have to retire to "my" room with the main system.
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Bose wave cd player in my den its state of the art(not really).
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