Personal speaker evolution

Dingus: Wow, those are some bargains! So, is AR-9 your primary listening speaker now?

Aktchi,
sorry about the late response. yes the AR-9 are my primary speakers.

i recently added a pair of ADS L-710's ($200) and run them in a stack with the L-810's.

In April of "05 I listed the following as my "personal speaker evolution"

ELECTROVOICE EV-2 (1963)
DYNACO 25
TANDBERG LOUDSPEAKER
DOUBLE LARGE ADVENTS
KLH-9
ACOUSTIC RESEARCH AR 3A
MAGNEPLANAR TYMPANI IU
ALTEC VOICE OF THE THEATER
GALE LOUDSPEAKER
OHM F
MAGNEPAN MG II
MAGNEPAN MG 3
MAGNEPLANAR TYMPANI IV
MAGNEPAN MG 3.3
MAGNEPAN MG 3.6
THIEL CS 3
THIEL CS 3.5
THIEL CS 3.6
THIEL CS 5i
WILSON WATT
WILSON WATT 3 PUPPY 2
GENESIS 200
EGGLESTONWORKS ANDRA
AVALON EIDOLON
MAGNEPAN 20.1
VERITY PARSIFAL ENCORE

Since that time, I have added a few others and I am thoroughly enjoying my "journey". Thanks to AudiogoN, it is possible to "try" a wide variety of fine audio products at very nominal cost - usually no more than shipping costs - .

Add to my list:

JOSEPH AUDIO PEARLS (Possibly the best I've ever heard in my system - wish I hadn't sold them.
PSB PLATINUM M-2 MONITORS (In second system)
JM LAB 907Be (Second system)
JM LAB MICRO UTOPIA Be (in a second system)
JM LAB SUB UTOPIA Be ( Used with the Micro Utopia Be speakers)
SONUS FABER CREMONA AUDITOR (second system) SWEET!
KHARMA 3.2 FE (I don't like the titanium tweeter - gives me a headache)
MARTIN LOGAN SUMMIT (A great speaker)

And . . . . . for now. . . . . . and maybe for good!

I have settled on two of the speakers listed above. I've tried to find something that I like better, but seem to go back to the two following:

System 1 - AVALON EIDOLON
System 2 - VERITY PARSIFAL ENCORE

Paradigm Export- still have
Magnepan 1.4
ProAc Studio
NHT SuperZero w/sub
Magnepan MMG w/sub - still have
Mirage M-3si
Triangle Celius

What a great thread. I am marveling at the awesome rigs mentioned here. It truly is a lifelong thing.
I started in the '50's as a young boy listening to my older brother's mono McIntosh going into a single Wharfdale, hifi but pre stereo days!
My humble list:
60's Pioneer CS-77
60's Sansui SP-2500
70's Rectilinears (big ones)
80's Stacked Advent A3s
90's Advent Maestros
All driven by a variety of Sansui receivers, 3000A, 5000, 9090, G-8000.
Presently listening to the Advent Maestros and a set of Klipsch Epic CF2's driven by a Conrad Johnson PV8 preamp going into 2 tweaked Dynakit ST-70's. These two sets of very different speakers seem to wonderfully augment each other. Sure glad I saved all my records ;-)
Thanks for all the great reading.