Three, plus several bookshelf speakers on the side. Like many others here, I listen to the smallest one the most, and outside. |
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Main; Office; Garage/Shop; small Home Theater
all overhauled past 2 years.
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Our house came with whole house stereo consisting of four amps and 28 speakers. It’s a system and sounds as one might expect. Do the bathrooms have sound? Check.
I plead the fifth about the rest.
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Five, but two are quite modest. Two channel system in dedicated room, home theater system, headphone system, and two modest systems in office and work out room.
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Three, a main system and two COVID “vintage tube” systems I pieced together from pieces I acquired and restored during the “days at home”. I had lots of fun, still having fun with them except I don’t have enough room now.
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Three. I am glad and fortunate to have three and those three perform different roles for me. The first system is in the living room and is the grandest in scale. The second is in the basement and performs as kind of a rock n roll system while shooting pool and/or watching sports. The last and my favorite is my nearfield system set up in a 9 x 11 room. I get more satisfaction out of the smaller system sitting nearfield than the other two. Being able to hear recordings on three different systems has allowed me to learn a lot about how rooms interact with the different systems, while also mixing and matching things like cables, cartridges and dacs.
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Two. 1 main listening. 1 Background music and NPR noise.
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Three, one for each house
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Two currently in service and two others in the boxes.
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1. Dedicated music room (B&W, dual BK subs, Krell KSA250 etc)
2. LR (ProAc, dual BK subs, Meridian electronics incl. 605 mono blocks)
3. MBR (Mission, Denon, etc)
4. Office (JBL, Proton, Nak)
5. Kitchen (Ruark, Denon, etc)
6. Orangery (KEF 2001.5 & sub, Arcam, Denon etc
7. Car with Bose system
8. Car with Blaupunkt system
9. Car (Alpine, Blaupunkt, Piedra, Sony)
10. Motorcycle (Apple, Autocom)
Some would say I have a problem…
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I guess I have 3 systems - one in my main family room, one in my man cave and one in the Master bedroom ( it runs a second set of speakers on the rear deck). Love the sound out of all my systems and love my wife for putting up with my hobby!
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living room setup; bedroom setup; plus damaged partially working gear I've not had the heart to throw away in the garage that provides either radio or through an inexpensive cable, streaming from my phone
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Four.
Vintage nearly SOA. 80s to 00s
Vintage vintage SOA. 70s to 80s. Features AR SP10 and Krell KSA50.
Crummy cheap Japanese home theatre. Why pay more to watch films?
Desktop, no improvements. Thinking of adding an op-amp and small bookshelf speakers - anyone got any original Goodmans Maxims?
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It was 1 for the past 30 years but as of a few months ago the number is now 2. Like many I had old stuff in the attic so I set up a 2nd system in the spare bedroom. I tried listening some afterwards but it is so far beneath my main system I never touch it now. My daughter is 9 so I am gonna leave it set up and see if she gains interest. For now, she has her Echo Show in her bedroom and Alexa plays whatever she wants without having to power anything on lol. What I have always wished I had but don't have the space is a different type of high-end system. My main system is Audio Research with Wilson speakers. I would love a SET tube amp and some Klipsch....at least I think I would! : )
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4 in my study, 1 downstairs in main house. 3 in lake house. Then outside speakers, whole house stuff, etc.
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Main: living room
HT: down stairs
Headphone: office
Craiglist scavange: Garage
Small streaming setup at girl friends condo
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1 that I listen to, a closet filled with enough stuff to make 2 more. Next stop, Audiogon listings!!
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Garage (old vintage stuff)
Studio/Office (very budget but enough for Qobuz and YouTube)
Den (main rig)
living room (music/tv/movies)
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I have a 7.2 in my master bedroom (there was a hissy but she’s better now). I swap I swap out the front mains every few months. I have my reference 5.2 in my basement theater. I also have a separate two channel system in the same space. I have fourteen pair of speakers in storage and four additional amps and preamps also in storage.
I have a problem.
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Five in the music room
Sonic Frontiers and 6n7 monos with Altec A-5
Nak stack with Zaph Audio 12.3
Cary SLI-80 with epsilon speakers
Musical Fidelity M6PRE and M6PRX with Summit X speakers
Musical Fidelity KW system with Magnepan 3.7i speakers
goal is to pair down to two
oh and 1 in the living room and garage
I am a sick man !
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Three. All aimed at acoustic music but with different ways to get there. It’s brand name, high-power components plus vinyl in the listening room, then low-power, class-A Pass DIY amplification with high-sensitivity DIY speakers in the family room, and diy First Watt/Pass “tube” preamp in the living room.
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Three. Main in living room. Secondary in dining room/den (sounds as good but slightly different than main.) Tertiary in bedroom. All handle CD/SACD, first two phono as well. All have tuners. First system has RtR Dolbyized tape; bedroom has Nakamich cassette. No streaming (at least not yet; perhaps not forever.)
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Den
Bose cd player in the garage only when washing the car
Car 1-Bose factory option
Car 2 -not sure
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Had 3, but down to 2; I sold off my headphone system due to lack of use.
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Four.
Main one in the living room, smaller one in the dining room, former main components in the bedroom and one in my office. All that in a townhouse of less than 1,000 sq ft :-)
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Two is a bare minimum. One is the main system, the other is made up of hand-me-downs from the main system, so you get more mileage out of replaced components before they leave the premises.
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In short time, when I take delivery of my new amp I will almost have two systems..... I have doubles (or more) of everything to build a second system, except speakers. So basically I'm now on the lookout for speakers
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I have enough audio equipment to have 7 complete systems....that's speakers, receiver or integrated amp,pre amps,Solid State or Tube (pre amps, receiver ,amps or integrated amp) cassette decks,and or cd players ,plus Speakers ,with rear speakers also....I'm like Crazy Eddie's, I'm Insane....
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Three separate systems:
1 - Living Room: 2-channel, old but tasteful SS gear from the late ’80s, Boston Acoustic A40 speakers (wonderful little 2-ways) + cheap subs. This is strictly for casual music during dinner parties & social gatherings
2 - Main Home Office System: Very complicated because the DAC has dual RCA outputs. One pair goes to an excellent preamp/headphone amp (Violectric V281) used as main system preamp + headphone amp. This path goes to an electronic crossover that feeds a big class D amp (for vintage KEF 103.2 speakers) + JL Audio 10" sub. 2nd path is a 2nd headphone amp. 2 people can listen to headphones at the same time on different paths.
3 - Side-System/Home Office: Another DAC with dual RCA outs feeding 2 headphone amplifiers (Headphone listening only).
Years ago I had a much bigger 2-channel system that engulfed the LR of our 1st house. Those were the days...
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I think that I need an intervention. I have 12 systems. Three of them are in our upstairs bedrooms. They are 5.1 systems with modest surround receivers. All have decent bookshelf speakers as well. There is another home theater system with Sonus Faber speakers and Marantz components in my family room. While it is predominantly a sound system for our large screen TV, it does a nice job with stereo music as well. I have two channel stereo systems in my living room, office (3 systems), and finished basement (Where there are four systems). Seven of the systems have turntables. All have CD or SACD players. five have streamers. There are extra components as well. At 64 years of age with several health problems, I have been contemplating downsizing. I will probably start moving some of the gear, however, it is more fun to collect it then to sell it.
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Currently
Office: 2-channel & headphone vinyl/streaming rig
Family Room: 2.1 combo HT/music
Basement: 5.2.4 Home Theatre w/ in-wall/in-ceiling speakers and in-room subs
Master Bedroom: Naim Muso used for music & as a soundbar
Garage: obsolete pioneer receiver with old bookshelves I upgraded from elsewhere
So I’d say 5, but some may say only 1. The office system is all mine and my favorite… the rest are compromises to be used by the whole family, with the family room system easily getting the most use. Hope to add some outdoor speakers for the patio this Spring/Summer. My wife couldn’t care less and is just as happy listening to an Alexa in the kitchen as any of the much better sounding systems… but she lets me have my fun.
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Hey I think this thread saved me, I’ve got 4 systems and tend to feel slightly bad about having so much gear( I also have a few extra pairs of speakers, 2 extra receivers).
1. A main theater system with an avr with 2 amps and a projector.
2. A small 3 speaker theater set up for the flat screen.
3. 2 channel main system
4. 2 channel with bookshelves and is for swapping in components to compare. It’s my hobby, but now that the mandates and restrictions seem to be going away, it’s time to reconnect and get out more.
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Three refurbished Garrard 401s with five tonearms.
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Multiple, enough gear to have six or seven systems. Not all in use at the same time. Only 2 in my home. 1 in my beach condo
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I have three systems. A "main" system, a bedroom system and a headphone rig.
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3 as well, main, basement and “office”, really more man cave…
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