Secondary system has finally been completed.

[3db]

My secondary system has now been completed from a speaker purchase POV. It started with a trade of a Blackberry Torch for a pair of original PSB Alphas to be used as my left/right mains. I already had a sub, a PSB Subsonic 5 which was replaced by a Rythmik LV-12R in my main system. This put me on the road to complete the center and surround speakers.

I picked up PSB 100c center channel in July for $75 and a pair of B Tech stands for $20 to support the Alphas. I picked up a pair of Alpha Mites and another pair of stands for $140. I now have two complete systems.

What's cool is the 2nd system is built on left overs and used components found on Kijijji, a site selling used everything .

 

[ImcLoud]

Very nice...

 

[3db]

Thanks. All I need now is to upgrade the second system .. which means upgrading the primary and passing the components over to the secondary system. Display would be my first upgrade.

 

[GIEGAR]

Excellent 3db! PSB's all through the house.

I still get a kick out of my Image system.

 

[Lulimet]

Nice. I to am close to complete a second system but i need to sell some stuff that I don't use first.

 

[3db]

I finally had a chance to use the secondary system with all speakers in place and I'm happy with the sound given the non optimal speaker placement of the surrounds. However, I will need to move my DVD player from the bedroom to the secondary system to get Dolby Digital out. The DVD/VHS combo player has a digital coax line out and the Technics only accepts the fibre optic input (forgot the name for it at this point).

 

[adk highlander]

Cool setup. So what room is this set up in? Spare bedroom? I'm going to need to do some upgrades in the workout space above the garage over the winter so do your main room upgrade soon and I can pick up this stuff up from you.

 

[macddmac]

Get one of these:
Coaxial (RCA) to Optical Toslink Digital Audio Converter - Monoprice.com

 

[3db]

Cool setup. So what room is this set up in? Spare bedroom? I'm going to need to do some upgrades in the workout space above the garage over the winter so do your main room upgrade soon and I can pick up this stuff up from you.

Thanks. That is the main floor family room. My wife doesn't want speakers out in the room so I have them all on stands with access to the wiring which is hidden behind the console and sofa respectively. I carry the speaker+stands up from the basement, takes 1 minute to wire everything up and voila.. Once I'm done, I disconnect and carry everything back down again. Its a compromise I reached with my wife as this is her room and I have the basement set up exactly the way I wanted for the main system.

 

[3db]

Get one of these:
Coaxial (RCA) to Optical Toslink Digital Audio Converter - Monoprice.com

Thanks. That will save me a whole lot of work.

 

[3db]

Posting final pics of the 2nd system to the 'pro's and joes' gallery thread.