Speaker types- your preference and your journey?

I haven’t purchased any speakers since lucking into a second-hand pair of Salk Veracity HT2-TL floorstanders. I have others, in fact I’m giving them all a chance in the rotation the last few days. The Salks have been in my main system since purchase, but yesterday I was reminded how good the Audiovector QR1’s can sound. Today I swapped them out for a pair of Human 81 that Huw Powell makes which I hear are very similar to the EPI 100 of yesteryear. They sound good too. Tomorrow I’m looking forward to swapping these out for my Snell Type D’s which sounded amazing last time they were in the rotation. If time allows I’ll also bring out the JBL L5’s that I’ve had a couple years. They sound good too. In fact it will be a painful decision when I have to let any or several of these go.

I’ve bought and sold a lot of speakers (only three pairs were new) in the last three years. Some stayed longer than others. Some were good, some like the Martin Logan Motion 40 I regret selling. Their AMT tweeter in the Motion 40 is the best tweeter I've ever heard.  If I could only keep one pair of speakers, at this time it would be the Salks. Or the Snells.

first I bought the best I could afford (I saved up 100s of dollars)

Then I sold it at a big loss and bought another pair from the proceeds. I repeated it a few times, selling-losing $-buying what I could afford - fun journey overall. 

My first real speakers were Altec Lansing around 1980. Then some big Cerwin Vega D9.  Probably not an upgrade in sound quality, but they cranked! 

Then a 5 sided pair of dbx soundfield 100.  Pretty cool speakers, really. 

At some point, I had a pair of Canton and PSB.  I can't remember where they fall chronologically. 

Then, Vandersteen 2c.  Sterophile class B, I think. 

Then in the mid 90s, a pair of Von Schweikert VR-4.  I had them until I bought my Von Schweikert Model One (Endeavor RE) a few years ago.  The current pair is likely my last speaker upgrade.

I recently bought a used pair of Vandersteen 2Ce for a second system. 

Just ordered the Klipsch Rebellion to avenge Christmas 1988.

@rar1, that’s inspiring.  Living long and well is indeed the best revenge. 

Quad 57. Once you go 'static, you never go back.