Personal speaker evolution


OK, so here is a thread I haven't ever seen here: What speakers have you owned? starting with the earliest, price paid, new/used, and perhaps the models that really impressed you (for the price) in CAPS.

Rat Shack Something or others, $120, new
Fisher Something or others, $280, new
ADS L710's, $550, new
Snell A2i's, $1100, used
BEVERIDGE SYSTEM 3'S, $1000, used
Martin Logan CLS, $1400, used
MARTIN LOGAN SL3'S, $2300, used
pmwoodward
cann't remember the prices, here is the history.
EV two way book shelf (1971)
Sansui three way (1974)
ESS amt4 (1976)
KEF 104ab (1978)
Home brew: ESS AMT1/Peerless mid. Kef bass drivers in subwoofer. (Now)

I have tried a number of speakers in the almost 50 years of my pursuit of the high end . . . . I have listed my speakers on a couple of previous occasions in this thread, but as the quest goes on, here is an update.

ELECTROVOICE EV-2 (1963)
DYNACO 25
TANDBERG LOUDSPEAKER
DOUBLE LARGE ADVENTS
KLH-9
ACOUSTIC RESEARCH AR 3A
MAGNEPLANAR TYMPANI IU
ALTEC VOICE OF THE THEATER
GALE LOUDSPEAKER (in my opinion, this was an awful speaker)
KLIPSCHORN - corner horn
OHM F
MAGNEPAN MG II
MAGNEPAN MG 3
MAGNEPLANAR TYMPANI IV (Loved these great big things)
MAGNEPAN MG 3.3
MAGNEPAN MG 3.6r
THIEL CS 3
THIEL CS 3.5
THIEL CS 3.6
THIEL CS 5i
WILSON WATT
WILSON WATT 3 PUPPY 2
GENESIS 200
EGGLESTONWORKS ANDRA
AVALON EIDOLON
MAGNEPAN 20.1
VERITY PARSIFAL ENCORE
QUAD ESL 63 CROSBY MODS
JOSEPH AUDIO PEARLS (Possibly the best I've ever heard in my system - wish I hadn't sold them.)
PSB PLATINUM M-2 MONITORS (In second system)
JM LAB 907Be (Second system)
JM LAB MICRO UTOPIA Be (in a second system)
JM LAB SUB UTOPIA Be ( Used with the Micro Utopia Be speakers)
SONUS FABER CREMONA AUDITOR (second system) SWEET!
KHARMA 3.2 FE (I don't like the titanium tweeter - gives me a headache)
MARTIN LOGAN SUMMIT (A great speaker)
EGGLESTON ANDRA II
SONUS FABER GUARNERI MEMENTO (The best little speakers in the world - I can't afford the Magico so this one will have to do . . . . )

Currently, I'm llistening to the wonderful Avalon Eidolons in my first system and the Sonus Faber Guarneri Mementos in the second. Couldn't be happier!

Perhaps I'll stop looking.
JBL L40 circa 1976 $450
Bose 501 circa 1989 $500
Definitive Technology BP7000SC circa 2005 $5000
1972 Pacific Stereo generics $?
1974 JBL Century 100s $250 (employee's discount)
1987 Definitive Technology BP ? $?
1996 Martin Logan SL3 $2000
1997 Definitive Technology Subwoofer
1997 Velodyne 1800 FR
1999 Martin Logan CLS IIz $2400
1999 Martin Logan Logos $1500
1999 Kinegistic sw-800 subwoofers $2000
2009 Rel Storm III subwoofer $600
Homemade speakers my cousin gave me -- 1980 to 1983(plywood boxes with no back on them)

Radio Shack Mach One -- 1983 to 1992 (but not the original, good ones; the cheap imitation model sold after about '80 or '81)

Celestion Model 100 -- 1992 to 2009 (still in use on second system)

PSB Synchrony 2 -- August 2009 to present