Personal speaker evolution


OK, so here is a thread I haven't ever seen here: What speakers have you owned? starting with the earliest, price paid, new/used, and perhaps the models that really impressed you (for the price) in CAPS.

Rat Shack Something or others, $120, new
Fisher Something or others, $280, new
ADS L710's, $550, new
Snell A2i's, $1100, used
BEVERIDGE SYSTEM 3'S, $1000, used
Martin Logan CLS, $1400, used
MARTIN LOGAN SL3'S, $2300, used
pmwoodward
Huge wood Sansui speakers with wood grills -- awesome for my teen years through college -- free from my brother

Ohm bookshelf speakers -- decent because dirt cheap -- maybe $100 in 1983?

ADS M9 -- loved these -- last speaker I had before audiophilia set in -- about $700 in 1990

Hales Rev 3's -- excellent all rounder, but you need a big room and big amps -- about 2100 in 1994/5

Soliloquy 5.0's -- paid about $900 new with the stands -- a great deal -- superb little speakers -- I miss them but don't have a place for them

Paradigm Atoms for the office -- all the niceties aside, they are still a fairly cheap little speaker

Soliloquy Sat-5's for the office -- much better

Gallo Due/MPS 150 -- still have them and have never had them in a position where they can show off -- paid about $1600 for the set not long ago, barely used

Spendor SP1 -- paid $700 used not long ago -- mellow as hell -- will be the speaker in the main system until I make the next choice. I can see why people like these -- never annoying -- but they are not very dynamic.

Next? Thinking of Revel F-50, Verity Fidelio, Piega C3-ltd...dreaming
Went from:

Polk RTA-11TLs ($750 new in 1990)

to:

THIEL CS3.6s ($2,000 used in 2000)
Klipsch Klipschorns (free/my parents)
Sansui 3 ways (in college)(free)
Traynor P.A. Speakers (15 inch woofer, horn tweeter)("borrowed" from fraternity)
Genesis Genre 1's ($700.00)
NHT VT2.4 ($1200.00)
In 74 I bought a pair of all-in-one (1)Utah 12" drivers and built plywood boxes for them. What can I say; I was a freshman in high school.
When I graduated I bought a demo pair of (2) Marantz Imperial 8's. My brother still has them.
Then I bought a pair of (3)Speakerlab 30's . . . still have them.
(4) Boston A70's with a JBL B380 sub. Still have
(5) Another pair of Speakerlab 30's. Still have
(6) Wharfedale W70D II's. Still have
(7) Nestorovic Type V's. Still have and love
(8) ADS L1590's with the PA1 amps. Still have

Still searching for audio nirvana, but can't seem to shed the ones I obtain in getting there.
I looooooooove speakers!!
Polk (dont remember the model)
Klipsch RF-3
Sonus Faber Concerto
Sonus Faber Signum, and the only speaker that wold make me trade my signums : Quad esl-988