Personal speaker evolution

Sean, that's painful. You drank the Bose Koolaid eh? Glad to see you climbed out of the rut and came over from the dark side. Betcha those Bose speakers burn great though!

1977 Magnepan SMG $550
1990 Magnepan 2.5R $1450

1) My father's homemade console/stereo. 9' long, speakers on both ends. Double thick 3/4" plywood, walnut veneer. 15" woofers, horn tweeters. Still own(he'd KILL me if I ever got rid of it).
2) Stromberg Carlson - 50s vintage, not sure model
3) Panasonic - 1976 I don't even know whats
4) ESS AMT1. Still own
5) Fisher boom and sizzle. Boom box ported alignment, 15" woofer, paper cone mids and tweeters
6) Spica SC50 w/Kinergetics 100 subwoofers
7) Apogee Centaur
8) Coincident Digital Masters w/Troubass Subwoofers. Still own.
9) Fried A/6. Still own.

I have also owned(still have too many to count) over 100 hundred pairs of various speakers either my father came into, I came into, he trashpicked, I trashpicked, he built, or I built. Some we modified, some we didn't. A lot were lousy. Some were good. A few were great. Most we have given to friends, who just made a comment about needing speakers, or just commenting on a pair we had laying around.

2 pilfered drive-in-movie speakers ( I believe the statute of limitations is up) hung on either end of my bed board.

K-Mart "Mid"-Fi ( Paid for)

Thiel, first model the Bro.'s came up with

Kochel KS 300 Horns

Avalon Eidolon

Piega P-10

Rockport Antares

Main sys

1968 AR 4x new $?
I heard bass that my parents Magnavox couldn’t play
1970 Grundig ? demo $?
probably the best looking I ever had
1970 Bozak ? demo $?
a huge bookshelf speaker
1972 Bozak ? used $?
a large cube w/ woofer, mid,& two tweeters
1991 Polk RTA15tl new $1,400
These served me well in main sys and later in HT
1998 POLK SDA SRS used $?
they were huge and I wish I'd tried with better amps
2000 HALES REV 3 used $1,600
very nice I may hold these awhile


Other sys

1998 BOSTON ACCOUSTICS A 7 used $100
plus $116 to recone, very nice bedroom sys
1999 jpw ML810 demo $500
Office system but needed smaller
2001 PSB IMAGE 1t new $300
Office system very nice
1973 ? ? used $50
Originally bought all four for $100 from a friend
who bought a Quad system (remember four channel)
All he wanted was the subwoofer and let me have
the satalites cheap. I've had them so long I forgot
details. Still used in bedroom as rears.