Personal speaker evolution

Pioneer fh 452 hk ? $200.00 new

MTX Monitor 12 about $350.00 new

PSB Image 2b $249.00 new

Ascend Acoustics CBM-170 $328.00 new

PSB Stratus Mini $600.00 used

The biggest improvement came from upgrading MTX to the PSB's

1- Spica TC50
2- Sound Dynamics 300ti
3- Spendor SP7/1
4- Dunlavy SCII Signature (w/Rel Storm II)
5- Epos M15 (W/Rel Storm II)
6- Thiel CS3.6

1) 1976 - Bose 301 (welcome to HiFi)
2) 1982 - Magnepan MG-1 (welcome to real HiFi)
3) 1983 - AE 2 (a short lived H Kloss company)
4) 1983 - Tangent II's (same as Rogers LS5's)
5) 1986 - EPI 100 II (consumer rpts #1 - hehe!)
6) 1987 - ADS L-510
7) 1989 - Homemade monitors based on KEF LS35a drivers
8) 2002 - Paradigm monitor 5 V2
9) 2004 - Infinity Primus 150 (ridiculously good for $150)
10)2004 - Magnepan 1.6qr

My favorite sound? Hands down - Audio Technica Electrostatic Headphones on LP's

1975 - AR-3a
1985 - JSE Model 1
1998 - Coincident Conquest
2000 - B&W SCM-1
2003 - B&W Nautilus 804
2003 - Coincident Total Victory
2005 - Fab Audio Model 1

I started with a pair of
1.Kenwood 8" 2 ways, they were about $A130 pair in 1976. I was 17 at the time and I worked weekends at a garage.....
2.Then a pair of Studiocraft 440s,1978, which were the direct-firing versions of Bose 501s. Maybe $A400 pr, can't remember.
3.Rogers Export Monitors, around $A900 pr in 1980 or so.
4.Custom-built speakers using JBL 12", B&W 802 kevlar mids and modified Peerless soft-domes in 1984. Had these a while, they worked pretty well.
5.Maggie 2.6Rs, bought as store demonstrator stock for $A2500 in 1998.
6.This year I acquired a pair of Silverline Sonata IIIs. I think I will keep these a VERY long time. Wonderful things.