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
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Huge wood Sansui speakers with wood grills -- awesome for my teen years through college -- free from my brother

Ohm bookshelf speakers -- decent because dirt cheap -- maybe $100 in 1983?

ADS M9 -- loved these -- last speaker I had before audiophilia set in -- about $700 in 1990

Hales Rev 3's -- excellent all rounder, but you need a big room and big amps -- about 2100 in 1994/5

Soliloquy 5.0's -- paid about $900 new with the stands -- a great deal -- superb little speakers -- I miss them but don't have a place for them

Paradigm Atoms for the office -- all the niceties aside, they are still a fairly cheap little speaker

Soliloquy Sat-5's for the office -- much better

Gallo Due/MPS 150 -- still have them and have never had them in a position where they can show off -- paid about $1600 for the set not long ago, barely used

Spendor SP1 -- paid $700 used not long ago -- mellow as hell -- will be the speaker in the main system until I make the next choice. I can see why people like these -- never annoying -- but they are not very dynamic.

Next? Thinking of Revel F-50, Verity Fidelio, Piega C3-ltd...dreaming