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
Home-made walsh-aligned(by accident) 5 1/4" full range
Altec-Lansing 100 series
Fisher XP66b
Ohm E (Sister still has)
AR 2 (Dad still has)
ESS Performance series w/10" and passive radiator
ESS AMT 1a
Ohm F (3) two plus one for "center channel"
Dozens of home-brewed designs
EPI 100 early Burhoe (still have)
Bose 4.2 (mod w/dome tweeter and new x-over) still have
Ohm F2 (still have)
Ohm Walsh 1 (4 of them) still have
Ohm Walsh 4XO (still have)
several others long forgotten
My father's OHM F and SNELL A (70s to 80s)
AR14 and Fostex speakers (80s to 90s)
Mission 731i (late 90s)
PSB STRATUS BRONZE (2000s)
JBL S38
JBL L300 SUMMIT (best)
Athena Floorstanders
Polk R15
EPOS M12
DALI IKON 6 (2nd best)
PARADIGM ATOM v.5
b&w 686 (current)
cann't remember the prices, here is the history.
EV two way book shelf (1971)
Sansui three way (1974)
ESS amt4 (1976)
KEF 104ab (1978)
Home brew: ESS AMT1/Peerless mid. Kef bass drivers in subwoofer. (Now)

I have tried a number of speakers in the almost 50 years of my pursuit of the high end . . . . I have listed my speakers on a couple of previous occasions in this thread, but as the quest goes on, here is an update.

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 (in my opinion, this was an awful speaker)
KLIPSCHORN - corner horn
OHM F
MAGNEPAN MG II
MAGNEPAN MG 3
MAGNEPLANAR TYMPANI IV (Loved these great big things)
MAGNEPAN MG 3.3
MAGNEPAN MG 3.6r
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
QUAD ESL 63 CROSBY MODS
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)
EGGLESTON ANDRA II
SONUS FABER GUARNERI MEMENTO (The best little speakers in the world - I can't afford the Magico so this one will have to do . . . . )

Currently, I'm llistening to the wonderful Avalon Eidolons in my first system and the Sonus Faber Guarneri Mementos in the second. Couldn't be happier!

Perhaps I'll stop looking.
JBL L40 circa 1976 $450
Bose 501 circa 1989 $500
Definitive Technology BP7000SC circa 2005 $5000