Apartment Dweller's Paradise - The Ideal 2 ch. system?

OMG Erik, I wish I had $10K to put together a system!  My systems, and I've been at this for about 30 years are always super musical and always way less then $10K.  I'm a giantkiller type of guy, and love to put budget components together that slay the ultra expensive gear or at least can go toe to toe with much more expensive gear.

For me, I could happily live with the following and feel like I'm not missing out on anything:

1.  Jeff Korneff 45 or 45 int - $2K-2500
2.  Naim cd 3.5, Proceed PCD-2 or Rega Planet cd player - $3-500
3.  3 head cassette deck (HK, Aiwa F990 or Nak) - $3-500
4.  Rega 25 TT - $7-800
5.  Omega single driver speakers - $1K
6.  Analog tuner like a Tandberg or Sansui TU717, etc - $2-400

Alternatively, a 2A3, 300B or a Berning EA230 with Music Reference pre, Magus or Counterpoint 5.1 or 3.1 preamp or perhaps cj MV50 and PV5 or push pull 6bq5 tube int up to $1K  with ProAc super tablettes, Response 1's, Epos ES14's or Rogers, etc - lots of choices here, but for $1000-1500, I could do some serious amplification in a tube int or SS amp and tube preamp

A Thorens, classic Yamaha or Kenwood TT would do as well.....

I could easily live on a $5K system and use the other 5K on nicer furniture too.....I left out IC's and speaker wire in these scenarios.

I second the KEF LS50W's. Spent 5+ years using different combinations of speakers and amps and when the LS50's landed in my apartment my search was over. Gonna sell a lot of my stuff now.

Parasound makes some nice equipment 

Chubaka,

Actually, this is a very good point! I mean, Parasound DOES make very nice things, but their Z series gear in particular is IDEAL for the starter 2-way system. :)

I highly recommend it. Their little ZDac V2 is the better of some $2k gear.

I'm using a 2 watt Decware SE84UFO amp with high efficiency (96bd) speakers and an Omega deep8 sub in a 1,000sq ft apartment and love it. Volume on the amp never goes past noon. Plenty of volume, density, imaging, and overall great listening. I think the key to is not get an amp that over powers the room.

Decware amps and Omega speakers are a great place to start.