Spice TC-50
Magnepan MG 1.6 QR
B&W DM 602 S3
I have since moved on. I currently own none of them and don't see owning them ever again. My ear, tastes and listening spaces have changed many times over the years.
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Totem Dreamcatchers and LSA 1s. both very good sounding speakers and good values. Regretted selling them and bought them again.
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oh man, i had an acoustic 320 and 2x15 cabinet, bought it for $400 in 1990 or 1991...a few years later pawned it. then bought it 10 years later from a completely different pawn shop. walked in lookin for something else and couldnt walk out without it. fantastic amp. got a 370 also, which, til it blew, sounded even better.
Whoa. Cey, all I had to do was call the buyer, you sent that amp out into the world!
Russ Alee designed some interesting gear. That 320 is similar to the little Acoustic Image Focus 2R I currently use. Mic and Instrument channels and a master out for the Upright.
I had the internal amp and the Gene Czerwinski 18" driver rebuilt some time ago but it hasn't been out of the house in decades. Crazy loud.
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spendor sp100's - but i did manage to get the back in the fold... 😁
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Harbeth P3esr in my second system. There was something unassuming yet special about the speakers. I’ll probably buy another pair next year.
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Tonian Labs TL D-1
Owned a pair, sold them, then missed them. Then bought another pair. If they would have went a little louder without breakup. I would have never sold them.
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Thiel CS something or other, but really good
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Never sold a a pair. However, I have upgraded with three successive pairs of
Magnepans. Love them all.
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Vandersteen 2ce Signature (II or III; can't remember which). I let them go in 1990 because I was going back to school and couldn't fit them in a dorm room. They were the first speakers I ever owned that hung a solid, deep, tall image in front of me and sounded good with either chamber music or The Chambers Brothers. So when I got out of school and had room once again...
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I have also never regretted selling off a pair of speakers, even if I enjoyed them at the time. I kept moving up, and carefully.
I did enjoy an old McCormack DNA-1 power amp (and a 0.5 too) but let them go only to eventually re-buy another DNA-1 (cheaply/lucky on eBay) which is a rock-solid and nice sounding back-up amp for many speakers. That's it.
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I never sold a pair and later wshed I had kept them.
I just kept the ones I really bonded with. Still own (and use) Energy Reference Connoisseur, Martin Logan CLS, Vandersteen 4A, and Wilson Maxx 2
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Merlin Music Systems VSM...
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Like mglik, I bought my first pair of the old Quads in the late 80s. Sold them when Quad announced they would no longer provide parts for the 57s. Bought my second pair in the early 2000s and kept them for about 8 years. Just bought my third pair and this set I will hold on to forever (I'm a slow learner). The Quad ESL is not perfect, but it's the closest thing to perfection that I have heard in my home.
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Vienna acoustics Beethoven, I tried many speakers that could go louder or had harder driving bass, even the VA Strauss didn't have the mids and top end of the beethovens. Now they're serving ht duties in my tv room, but upgrading from them cost a small fortune.
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Heard this story many times.
Lived joyfully with Quad 57s for years. Then sold them to get dynamics bass and treble. (Probably also never had the right amp)
Always missed them. When I saw an ESS rebuilt pair, grabbed them.
Now, would never have any other.
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The first were AR3a's. I've now had three separate pairs! I have owned 2 pairs of JBL L100's. I wish I'd have kept Totem Sttaf and Platinum Audio Solo's. I also owned 2 pairs of Solo's. Regret selling B&W 804 Matrix. I once put all my audio possessions into a spreadsheet and came out with the same conclusion:
I'm sick :)
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Miller Kreisel S1B pair. I found a pair of Satellite 1B decades later, and was surprised how good they are, now that I have a better idea how to integrate them with a subwoofer, and use the variable crossovers to allow for different placements.
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Kudos cardea C20, really better than my Focal 907be, the SEAS crescendo K2 tweeter is wonderfull compared to Focal béryllium, it's an another world !
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Snell A III's.....I heard a piano playing in a local HI FI shop's sound room...I thought it was a live pianist playing an actual piano , live in the room....I went back to check it out and it was the first Bruce Hornsby album . I went back a couple weeks later to buy those "dreamy" speakers and was told that they were sold... Disappointed I searched the next couple years for the speaker I could not get out of my head. Then I saw a pair advertised in the paper and called the owner...I told him my story and he said that HE was the one who bought the Snell A 3's I heard in the store...Wow...I immediately bought the without an audition. I miss them alot but I'll have to find a pair locally because they are almost impossible to ship.
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Snell Type B's. I'm on my third pair!
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@jasonbourne52 - are those Infinity Monitor Ia’s or IIa’s? I still have my Monitor IIa’s that I bought in 1976, but hadn’t heard of Monitor Ia.
I bought a pair of Totem Sttafs after selling a previous pair (upgraded to Mani Ii).
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@m-db, very cool!
oh man, i had an acoustic 320 and 2x15 cabinet, bought it for $400 in 1990 or 1991...a few years later pawned it. then bought it 10 years later from a completely different pawn shop. walked in lookin for something else and couldnt walk out without it. fantastic amp. got a 370 also, which, til it blew, sounded even better.
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My first speaker of quality was theKlipsch Heresy , ibought back inthe 70 s
40 years later after learning about modding speakers and newer technologies I purchased the latest version , they still use lower cost Xover parts even inthe Top Khorns , That being said thatis their weak link and soundnight and day more coherent and refined after modding them .my brother has them now
and is enjoying them .
also another speaker That has very good potential is maggi I owned the3.5
then 3.6 the Xover parts inside not good , and to do them justice a external Xover is needed for there is little room inside all quality aftermarket parts are much bigger
and those horrible banana connectors rob detail from the start .
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Bought new and sold in ’90 a pair of ESS AMT 1Cs’, but never could forget that large amt driver and how damn fast it was...
Kicked self too many times, finally eBay’d a pair with original xovers and pair of meh 12" drivers of unknow origin. (Later reconed for practice...)
Of course I replaced the ribbons, nothing else to break with them except your foot if you're clumsy... ;)
Got gifted with a new pair last year, along with an ESS Eclipse 2241 am xover .
Still looking into a woofer that can keep up with them....*G*
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It looks like a lot of members are listing speakers that they owned only once and regret selling. This is about speakers that you bought twice.
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I sold my beautiful Mirage M3's, they were very good sounding.
Matt M
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JBL XPL 200’s
Bought in the eighties they were ok with bad electronics, sold them jump to 2021 friend had the pair with Michi x5’s and lumin streamer and oh my freakin god, the soundstage transparency up there with $20,000 focal’s I owned. Found a pair online bought them back instantly for $2k never looked back sold the focal’s and happy happy
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Better than I deserve. Is that a guilty conscience?
I like the expression though.
I was sad about every speaker I sold but I wanted to
try something new so it is a a Yeah/Boo situation.
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Wharfedale EVO-40s, bought on closeout for $800, sounded like $4k, should have kept for my secondary system. All they needed was a bargain sub or two. Better midrange clarity than my Legacys.
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Never bought same speaker twice. If I may, these are speakers I should have bought but didn't:
1. Hales Signature II
2. Dunlavy SC-4A
3. Sonus-Faber Extrema
4. Audio Artistry Beethoven
My current speakers, B&W 804D3, are better than I deserve.
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Magnepans
Large Advent Walnut Cabinets
But, I just got a pair of Monitor Audio Silver 300 7Gs, so I'm missing those two a lot less.
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Magnapans, don’t remember the model, had kids and they had to go. Now I’d love a pair again but with two giant Maine Coon cats and a 105 pound Golden Retriever I just know they get damaged. Maybe some day…
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Late 80s Infinity Kappa 9s, best rock speakers I’ve ever owned…..good even with crappy 80s and 90s recordings
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Infinite Slope Model .6 which I had lusted over since college days. Finally bought a pair, but sold them for some Axiom M80 towers. Big mistake. Bought another pair of the .6 (actually two pair) along with ultimately a pair of Infinite Slope Model 1 and then the Model 2's. Eventually sold them all and moved on to Focal. The Model 1's were the favorite of mine out of all those products. Too dated of styling though for me anymore, but they went to a good home.
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@markkpa
I had the Spendor 9/1's for several years after selling the SP100's. I upgraded the crossovers and wiring myself, but in the end, I always felt more affection for the sound of the SP100's. They are very good speakers though, and really beautiful. People would comment on their appearance.
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Martin Logan Monolith IIIx.
So frickin' cool looking.
Never really got them to sound good, but, hey...
Sold to a guy in Japan and made money on them. So... mixed feelings.
At the moment, I don't think my Vandersteen 5 speakers are going anywhere soon.
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Never happened to me. Looks like 2017 was a great year for jasonborne!
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Road Doublets, owned for nearly 20 years, sold to a friend, bought back, given to son, swapped back. Eventually replaced with Audio Physic Sitara 25's. Must have bought 6 pairs to replace the Royd's, Monitor Audio, Kef, B+W, Yamaha, even Sonab OA4's, nothing until the AP's sounded right ( they may well have been better just not right)?
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JBL 4311.
C.S.I., the soffit or bridge mounts with 2 6" woofers
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Bought Paradigm Signature S4 twice. They do some things real well.
Others I would consider buying again Tekton DI (although I would likely do Moabs or higher) or Guru QM2 for a smaller 2nd system , or Snell type E lll as they were musical as all get out. For the prices you can sometimes find the Snells for I would consider them being in a garage system (although they deserve better😃)
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I had a pair of modded Dahlquist DQ-10’s That I wish I still had. The tweeters were replaced with a Decca ribbon tweeters and the crossover was updated with better components and the crossover point and roll in slope were changed.
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I have a pair of Spendor SP9/1's that I'm afraid to let go of for this reason - they don't do anything seriously wrong. I've owned them for over twenty years.
That's a speaker marriage. 😁
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At one point I had 2 or 3 extra sets of speakers and listed most of them on Craigslist. My intent was to just keep whatever didn't sell, but when someone offered to buy my Klipsch Quartets... I just couldn't let them go.
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I have a pair of Spendor SP9/1's that I'm afraid to let go of for this reason - they don't do anything seriously wrong. I've owned them for over twenty years.
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