Who can resist a discussion like this?
Less interesting to me than the identity of one’s "favorite" loudspeaker is the path taken by individual audiophiles. Watching a chronological list of a thoughtful listener’s speakers go by is to sense that person’s musical tastes and watch an evolution, as the audiophile’s disposable income increases and—more importantly—they come to grips with the fact that compromise is inevitable, and one makes a series of judgements made to serve the music most important to us. If this has gone right, over 5 years or 50 years, you’re as happy as you can be. For now.
Here’s my progression from age 17 to the present: My "reference" two-channel system:
KLH 17
Andy
Less interesting to me than the identity of one’s "favorite" loudspeaker is the path taken by individual audiophiles. Watching a chronological list of a thoughtful listener’s speakers go by is to sense that person’s musical tastes and watch an evolution, as the audiophile’s disposable income increases and—more importantly—they come to grips with the fact that compromise is inevitable, and one makes a series of judgements made to serve the music most important to us. If this has gone right, over 5 years or 50 years, you’re as happy as you can be. For now.
Here’s my progression from age 17 to the present: My "reference" two-channel system:
KLH 17
Advent (Large)
Klipsch (Heresey)
B&W DM7 Mk2
Magneplanar 3.3
Mirage M.1
Watt3/Puppy2/POW-WHOW
Watt/Puppy 6/Martin Logan Descent
Sasha/Watch Dog
Duette 2/WatchDog
Magico S3 Mk2/Magico S-Sub
It works out to 4.4 years per loudspeaker. A reasonable amount of patience for one of our kind.
Andy