Here's my current mess in the living room that gets the most use. The stylus is the most expensive item in the system. Dual 621, Superscope QRT-440, Sansui SP1200's. The whole thing has no right sounding like it does. I've said it before, I'll never let those Sansui speakers go. I've tried other models and they all sound like the well documented crap, but these 1200's really do sing with low power amps.
The tv setup has a Marantz NR1602 and Infinity Qe's. The Qe's by themselves, out in the open, lack any sort of low end. A happy little mistake of putting them in the armoire changed that, the bass isn't earth shattering but very present.