So, tell me about your 2nd system ...

.. whether in dining room, kitchen, car or bedroom, what makes up your second system, how long has it been stable, and what makes it 'OK'?

Mine is a set of Yamaha separates:
CDX-670 CD Player + KX-650 Cassette Player + RX-V660 Receiver
usually into Celestion Ditton 15s (circa 1976) but now into JMLab Electra 905s while they wait on their (as yet unknown) new owner.

[ed: circa 1994, located in dining room since upgrade in living room in 2000]

I suspect that we have a few surprises in store ...

 

Tivoli clock radio.

Marvellous.

 

Mums system

Marantz PM4000 amp
Sony CDP XE530 CD Player
Early 80's Technics cassete deck - tripple head
JPW 310i speakers

Sisters system:

Cambridge Audio CD32 CD Player
Old late 70's Pioneer amp
Early 00's Pionneer speakers (£20 richers) with my self fitted Audax tweeters.
Old 1970's tuner (funny make).

 

mine's a monolith mp3 player a pair of sernnheiser pmx60 headphones and one of those cassette adaptors so i can use it in my car.
cheers


julian

 

ipod shuffle.

 

mines just my main system a LOT LOUDER so I can hear it anywhere in the house.

 

Tivoli PAL radio in the kitchen, coz it's cute

Luxman LV107 amp
Luxman T117L tuner
Marantz CD80 CDP
Cabasse Galiote shelf speakers in my office

 

Same source into a Technics SA-R230L tuner amp and then to either a pair of Realistic Minimus 7's (Small metal enclosure speakers) or a pair of DIY transmission lines using £30 car speakers. Also sometimes listen on AKG K55 headphones. I have them all on the same source to compare my mixes on different systems.

No the DIY transmission lines using £30 car speakers don't have anything to do with 'the best speakers in the world'. It's a complete coincidence that I made them to use the speakers that were spare. They sound shit. ?though I am quite proud of the enclosure design!

 

mp3 tunes on my new PDA (Dell axim X50) - which incidentaly I am using to write this message over my wireless LAN!!!
sweet

 

Nothing but cool retro kitsch round here…



Tony.

 

Bedroom system Wadia 6i (Foo foo'd) Belcanto Evo 2 & Medowlark K 2's (not touched yet) Roku (squeezeboz thing) effort (toyed with) & 3/4 of a terrabit on HDD. all with non standard signal transmission devices

 

Arcam delta 60 with mission something or other cherrywood doo daas (the things with the white plastic drive units) garrard 401 with rb250 OL thing and an audio technica oc7

 

my second system is actually auto related! (as in the motah!!)


Alpine headunit
Alpine 5.25's in front door panels
Alpine 6.5's in rear panels
Sony tweeters in front & rear doorcards
Infinity 6x9's under the front seats
Alpine 10" sub in boot
Alpine 500 watt amp

:MILD:

 

Pioneer VSA E06 AMP
Pioneer 717 DVD Player
MorduantShort Classic10i speakers
Mission Centre
JVC 32" wide screen TV
Retired cables from main system

 

I used to have a bedroom system, but never listened to it so ebayed it (Marantz CDP, Mission DAC, Kenwood 3030R, Kef Cresta 3s). Being fair, sounded pretty good when I could be bothered.

The closest I have now is a Sony diskman that I use in the office with some Sennheiser in ear headphones.

 

Like bottleneck, my first system plays loud enough to be heard all over the house.

My second system is in the car...



The speakers are the factory fitted ones in the Renault.
As it's a posh version, they aren't bad

 

iriver H140+super mini moy amp+Shure E2c Inear phones

Computer with audigy card into Accoustic Energy aego 2.1

Car system is standard A4 10 speakers (inc Sub) around 165 watts, good enough.

 

Elonex eXentia media PC in the kitchen.

 

Technics mini system in the kitchen, that only gets used with the speakers outside in the summer as my main system is loud enough for the kitchen.

I have some apple/harmon kardon soundsticks plugged into my mac for office use.

Mobile tunes, standard head unit (Becker) with optional bose upgrade I hate bose but its the best factory fit sound and isn't bad at all but they do charge £750 extra for it, and another £350 if sir wants the multichanger.

 

arcam alpha5+ cd / arcam delta 60 amp / indigo model 1's.
pc into the amp too, with itunes and 7.72Gb of mp3's
"on the move", an ipod mini / "altoids" cmoy / crappy headphones that i need to replace.