Speakers to hang on to for LIFE

Anything made by John Fuselier. I own a protoype speaker calles the Darth Vader they are to die for.

I have two, my acoustat spectra 33 stored and my currently used and continuously modifying ESS heil 1D. I have found the ESS as the volkswagon of loudspeakers. You can modify so many parts to it as long as you keep at least the main drivers. Adding ess heil and tweaking the crossovers or even replacing them is also an option. I decided tweak the crossovers with dakiom stablizers and adding newer ess woofers and removing the passive radiator. I am now adding a THIRD ess heil driver as a linesource stacked. with TWO, the sound is unbelievably real as if the musicians are there with the right kind of equipment matching. In my case an integrated tube amp and a tube cdp. I plan on putting it even in another level by stacking 3 ESS HEILS. If you're an ESS fan, it's worth stacking the ESS heils if you can afford it. As much as i love planars and electrostats, a modified ESS heils to me is the most enjoyable I have ever owned. I have magnepans, acoustats, eminent tech, ohm acoustics, SLS, srslabs, klipsch, sunfire, bic, advent, dbx soundfield. I collect speakers. So far I have found my modified ESS as the most revealing and most realistic live sounding loudspeaker I have ever experienced. It blows away martin logan's and others in my opinion. My modified ess is awesome. It can handle power and the bass are super realistic and the mids and highs are so real, you think the vocalists and instrumentalist are in front of you.

I listen to my KEF 105/3s since summer 1990, i've swapped electronics & cables many times, but that captivating sound at the showroom was coming from those kef's and i wasn't giving up til i got it. when I finally achieved audio nirvana it was almost disapointing as my quest was done. still in 2004 i decided to replace them but after several home speaker auditions i found nothing could best them in my price range, so 21 yrs & counting.

Bose 901 or Cerwinvega.

My first speakers were Genesis Model 1's that I bought with paper route money in 1979. They were amazing speakers for their price point. Built in New Hampshire and modeled after the BBC school of speaker design and engineering, this was a period considered the New England school of design which was pretty much the same as BBC in the U.K. I wish I still had them. Paper drivers didn't last long but boy could those babies sing with my Technics receiver.
I got lucky and owned B&W DM602 for about 10 years. At $600/pair, I'm not sure if I've ever heard speakers that liked to party like these at any price point. These were my very favorite speakers. I now own much more expensive and better gear, but nothing will ever connect with me like a cheap NAD integrated with cheap 90's B&W monitors.