Personal speaker evolution

Ok, here is mine:

1. pre 1988: Tower speakers - no idea of brand/price, 15" woofers
2. 1988-1990: Advent bookshelfs - ~$100
3. 1991: Yamaha YST-A10 (I think) bookshelfs - ~$89/each?
4. 1992: Infinity SM115 - $500 for the pair
5. 1992-2002: Infinity Kappa 8 - $700 used (mains, then surrounds)
6. 1993-2002: INFINITY KAPPA 9 - $1280 new
7. 2002-: INFINITY IRS BETA - $4050 plus shipping and refoaming
8. 2002-: Infinity IRS Gamma - $2500 (needs new woofers)
9. 2002-: INFINITY IRS BETA - $3000 (I couldn't pass up another pair)
10. 2002-: INFINITY IRS V - $24000 (gotta hear it for brand loyalty!)

I think I am done "evolving" my speakers, but I need some lower end ones for the rest of the house...

My listening room is really too small for what these speakers need. If you would like to see some pictures, I could email them. Send me your email and you can see how big speakers look in a small room. I can't even use my projector right now because the IRS V blocks about 30% of my screen.

I have the IRS V set up as mains and am using the Gammas as my rears for the moment. I need to pick up a couple more amps and then will move the dual betas into the surround position and the gammas will lay on their sides and become the center channel.

If I decide to matrix a center surround, I will split the gammas and get a pair of modulus for the ceiling effect speakers.

If infinity made an IRS Center and IRS Surround, then I would have had them instead, but unfortunately the didn't, so I guess I am stuck with betas.