Personal speaker evolution

Great question!

All speaker replacing took place for room related or financial reasons.

1. Sennheiser HD40 headphones -$90-(Shoestring budget)
2. Acoustic Research AR5 -----$200-(A bargain !)
3. JBL homemade TL 15-inch ---$400-(High efficiency !)
4. Altec Lansing model 19 --$1,000-(Tangerine, aaaah !)
5. ADS L-400 mini-monitors ---$400-(Moved to small house)
6. Canton Plus 3-piece set ---$200-(Moved to bedroom)
7. Acoustic Research AR3a ----$300-(Old darling)
8. Marantz Imperial 8 --------$200-(Teen age memories)
9. Advent (Original large ----$200-(Couldn't resist)
10. B&W CM-120 In-wall --------$200-(Just curious)
11. Quad 988 w/Seas pipe Sub $4,000-(Large listening area)

All speakers except ADS were used and needed repair. All bad components where replaced with better quality. Quads needed no repair and only mod was upgrade with new cardas speaker terminals.

Happy holidays to all!

Jotam

KLH 20,
Advent,
Thiel 03a,
Vandersteen 2C,
Audio Physic Virgo II,
Vandersteen Quatro

1. Some old drivers I tore out of an RCA console stereo from the 1950's and put into homemade boxes
2. A pair of Merlins (forget the model number, but entry level) from the late 1980's
3. Merlin Signature 4 Bi-wires (still have them on 'passive display') from the late 1980's
4. Merlin VSM-Milleniums
5. Merlin VSM-MX with the superBAM
6. Peak Consult Incognito X

speakers de la ed:

1. mission 70 (w/ some akai receiver) - circa 1984 ....college starts

2a. mission 700 Leading Edge (the same akai receiver) - approx 1988

2b. mission 700 Leading Edge (new NAD integrated amp) - circa 1999

3. celestion F1 (with the NAD integrated amp) circa 2001

4. tetra 120U (with Denon AVR4306 in a 5.1 system - 3 120Us as L/C/R) starting 2006

/fancy eh?/

/it's been good listening for me/

Here goes:

o Altec 604C in Klipsch-designed Empire Electrovoice enclosure; then built a second identical enclosure from plans and equipped it with a 604E ($275, plus $70 for materials)
o KEF 101s WITH AUDIO PRO SUBWOOFER ($1,100)
o KEF 104/2s with Velodyne 15" subwoofer ($3,700)
o APOGEE DUETTA SIGNATURES ($3,700)
o B&W 801 SERIES 3s ($5,500)
o MAGNEPAN 3.5Rs WITH VANDERSTEEN 2WQ SUBWOOFERS ($5,900)