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

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
1972 Pacific Stereo generics $?
1974 JBL Century 100s $250 (employee's discount)
1987 Definitive Technology BP ? $?
1996 Martin Logan SL3 $2000
1997 Definitive Technology Subwoofer
1997 Velodyne 1800 FR
1999 Martin Logan CLS IIz $2400
1999 Martin Logan Logos $1500
1999 Kinegistic sw-800 subwoofers $2000
2009 Rel Storm III subwoofer $600
Homemade speakers my cousin gave me -- 1980 to 1983(plywood boxes with no back on them)

Radio Shack Mach One -- 1983 to 1992 (but not the original, good ones; the cheap imitation model sold after about '80 or '81)

Celestion Model 100 -- 1992 to 2009 (still in use on second system)

PSB Synchrony 2 -- August 2009 to present
This is pretty easy:

The cheap speakers that came with my "all-in-one" (turntable, receiver in the same box) college system.
Some generic speakers from Pacific Stereo
Design Acoustics (from AudioTechnica)
Cambridge Soundworks bookshelf speakers
Paradigm Studio 20s
Joseph Audio Rm7si (for the past 10 years).