Who stay with Merlin longest time

2002 MX to MXe to Master BAM, by the far the longest owned piece of equipment I have, and of course, the rest built around it.

Yes, we must thank Jimbo for saving us from ourselves - a true public service.

SUB!!!!!!!!!!!

It does feel good to support an "local" craftsman with excellent products, customer service, and a pretty genuine concern for his customers - all the ingredients for success - and Richard Vandersteen and Ralph Karsten are also in that camp.

Marty, don't waste the pixels.

Not only interesting how long folks own their Merlins, but how many people stopped looking to change speaker once having Merlins in the fold. I owned many speaker before, but once I got on to the Merlin trail, I simply don't think about other speakers anymore - and those that own them understand why.

It can take some time to come to the conclusion and accept that bigger and more expensive might not be better; to accept that a smallish 2-driver speaker might be one of the speakers in a small group of speakers that are amongst the best in the world - I think the Merlins are.

I agree. And I don"t think I ever had a room that would really be optimal for large, multi-driver speakers - though of course they could "work" - it just seems large speakers really need large rooms to sound coherent across the spectrum like the Merlins and Quad 57/63 electrostatics do - in an odd way, they seem more alike than you would think given how different they are in "driver" technology.

That sounds like a superb retirement strategy:)