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Has anyone considered rebuying a speaker you once owned??

I am curious if any one has ever considered buying a speaker previously owned and liked, but decided to either downsize or look for a "different" type of sound. 

I ask because I purchased a pair of Acoustic Zen Adagios speakers about 5-6 years ago, and decided to downsize the system with a less heavy speaker that was easier to move around.  The Adagios were 80 lbs each.  I currently own a pair Golden Ear Technology model 7 speakers (purchased in 2014)  which are smaller and lighter at 37 lbs each. The Adagios are 50 inches tall, and the GET 7's are 40inches with a slimmer profile. 

I realize the Adagios  are almost three and a half times more expensive than GET 7's. which are $1395. They can sound very good, but I have come to realize they are not in the same league sound quality wise as AZ Adagios. and  may possibly be the best speaker I ever owned.   Of course, hindsight or hindsound is a wonderful thing.    Thanks,  SJ   

  

 

sunnyjim

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Noromance is not alone---there are a number of multiple-time Quad ESL owners around. Hard to live with, hard to live without.
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Jim, if you mean a predecessor to the .7 itself, no, there wasn’t---there was no Magnepan MG .6. But there were predecessors to the 1.7 and the 3.7, those being the 1.6 and the 3.6. Both of those had xovers that allowed them to be bi-amped. The series xovers in the 1.7 and 3.7 do not allow bi-amping. At it’s price, bi-amping the MG .7 seems out of balance, expenditure-wise.
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One real good reason for getting the .6 version of any of the MG series Maggies is that their crossovers allow them to be bi-amped; the crossovers in the .7 versions do not.
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Magneplanar Tympani's---the 3-panel Maggies. I had T-I's back in '73-4, T-1D's in the '90's, and now T-IV's.
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