Speakers to hang on to for LIFE

I've owned Unity Audio Signature 1's since '93. Wonderful on any type of music-great midrange and good treble and bass response. They simply disappear and have great soundstage. A great bonus is their appearance-beautiful furniture-grade wood.

Still love my B&W Matrix 802 series 3 I think Ill Hang on to them for a long time. Best Ive heard, And Im in an Audio club on Long Island where the median system is 30-75$K They hold there own. Also still have my Polk monitor10's in my BR for the second system those are Lifers. 15 yrs old now, as good as new, in looks and sound.

Another Quad esl57 owner here. 8 years, and 3 pairs do i own. only avantgarde trios have matched them so far, and thats an amazing comparison. have mine in a 12'x12' room at the moment!!!! still sound great. Rolling stones on now, cant always get what you want, but you get what you NEED yah

Spendor BC-1s purchased in 1979.
The most tonally accurate speakers I've heard. Other speakers have come and gone. Some I still have. Some rock more. Some do this or that better. But none sound as much like live music as Spendor.

I just replaced my merlin 1B+'s that were purchased new in 1987. the speaker cloth had oxidized so I stripped them down to the bare sonotube material which made them look worse but they still sounded mighty fine. I caught the upgrade bug in '87 and bought a B&K st140 power amp, superphon revelation preamp, ar turntable and the merlins. my previous system was klipsch and harmon kardon which at the time I thought was pretty decent. I heard a pretenders album on a similarly priced system as my merlins/power amp pre amp combo and I could hear chrissy hynde actually breathe while singing and the rest is history. I lived happily with the merlins for 19 years and thought I had the bomb budget high end system of all time. I still use the amp/pre amp purchased in '87 and in december 2005 I bought a cambridge audio cd player, all new interconnects, b&w 603's and new speaker cables. the b&w's look like fine furniture but the merlin's served me well through college and way beyond. bravo merlin international!