Personal speaker evolution

1. Long ago - $100.00 stereo tuner & 2 speakers from
Five and Dime (SS Kres??????)

2. 16 yrs. ago - Huge used old Kenwood with jumbo Radio
Shack speakers.

3. 12 yrs. ago - Denon DRA345R receiver & matching DCM 340
carousel CD player.

4. Am now considering 2 channel, maybe monos and a couple
speakers with a foreign name because I have been very
happy with my Lexus LS.

Speakers have changed least often so they can be remembered.
I'll start with smaller Advents although there were some no name jobs in my very first system. Then came the larger Advents...I thought the smallers were better with more tuneful bass. Next was my speaker epiphany when an audio salesman told me to go with speakers that could "keep up" with upgraded electronics down the road. I chose the Harbeth Monitor Mk3's which I hung onto for about 16 years relegating them to generally more musical secondary systems after they were done in the main setup.

For the main system I went with Apogee Duetta II's. Looking for a little more transparency and air I then moved on to the Martin Logan CLS II's which I used for several years with and without subs by Entec. A change of listening environments prompted the move to Wilson Watt2/Puppy 1's which was one of the few dynamic speakers that could keep an electrostatic lover happy. Current speakers are the more refined Wilson Sophias.

In the other system, the Harbeths were eventually replaced by ATC SCM 10's. Now I am using Sonus Faber Guarneris.

Sony all in one system (30+ years ago). Then a Technics system with Jensen 3-ways (25 years ago). Then Klipsch LaScalas (still own) - 22 years ago. Thiel CS3s (tweeters blown) -18 years ago. Paradigm Studio 100 V2s (still own) -3 years ago. AR.com DIY (sill own -back channels in HT) -last year. EFE T-22s (front 3 channles in HT) + Adire Audio Rava - last year.

Best speaker - EFE T-22's + Rava.

KLH bookshelf speakers model?
Altec Lansing Mid stacks
Polk Audio Rt-5
Klipsch KG 5.5
KLF C-40
Klipsch Quartet
Magnepan SMGa
Dunlavy SC-1
Klipsch Forte II

4-05-2004

Lafeytte C-25s? Not sure of model# 1967
Lafeytte C-50s? Not sure of model# 1968
AR-4As 1969
AR-2As 1974
OHM Gs 1975
OHM C2s 1977,(2 pair stacked), incredible rock speakers stacked!!
Magnepan IBs 1983
Celsestion SL-6s with Reardon 10" subwoofer 1984
Incredible home engineered and built ported speakers (12" woofers, 4" mids and dome tweeters)still have 1999
Magnepan IIBs purchased on eBay then sent to Magnepan for rebuild (wow)!! still have 2004
OHM C2s (2 pair stacked...again) still have, something old is new again 2004
One current system powered by 2 Crown DC 300As mono'ed (amazing what you find on eBay)

Tom Miller
milfam@adelphia.net