I’m thinking of buying a second stereo system. I have a good one by ordinary standards although not by audiophile standards, but it is stuck in my living room. I’d like a system which is transportable from room to room, say in 15 minutes, but which gives much better sound than the kind of cheap ghetto blaster I’ve been using for that purpose. Forget about classical and modern jazz on my $80 wonder.
I’ve noticed that most companies now seem to market a multispeaker mini-system for a few hundred dollars. For my main system, I build it up myself, buying speakers of considerably better quality than amplifier, for example and looking for good value in each component in the price range I’ve decided on. For the second system, I was thinking of just buying a single unit here if there is one of good quality available.
Does anyone have a system that might suit me that they could recommend, or one which they’d recommend I avoid?
If you want to listen to the same source from room to room, why not just wire the whole house? There are amps and distributors designed to do exactly that (a bit high end, but WTF?). Then you can put on your favourite chunes and wander about the house with the vacuum cleaner blasting away while the speakers in each room blare out fifty of your favourite polkas and national anthems.
Similar to BigDavy, I can recommend a good quality micro system, matched with even better speakers.
I bought a Denon M33S a while ago, without the standard speaker set and have been very pleased with it. http://usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/MicroSystems.asp