Early 80's - late 70's best audio products

Spica baby! John was so far ahead of his time that I really wish he was still designing speakers today (I'll bet he'd still take the crown in some sort of idea no one has thought of if he were to re-enter the market even today). Hello John! Where are you? Please come back to the market with another speaker design!

Amen!

I emailed him with some questions about the speakersand he was nice enough to reply. Mr Bau is in Santa Fe, still in the electronics business but his focus is stuff for recording studios ect.

I don't know what they did to him when Spica was bought by Parasound but he has made it very clear that he has no interest to be in the speaker biz again, ever.

Parasound to the best of my knowledge never came out with a Bau designed speaker.

What a waste.

BTW I have two pairs of Spicas TC60's and a much older pair of SC501's that fit the bill as one of the best bargains from the era.

Teledyne AR-9 speakers

Quad ESL
Linn Sondek
Naim NAC/NAP
NAD3020
AR18

systemdeck IIX, rega3 with audio technica AT30E-MC.
great american sound: thoebe pre-amp, son of ampzilla power amp, b&w dm7 main speaker, empire 7000 rear speaker
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after 27 odd years, i'm happy to report the system is still going strong (on my 10th cartridge).
i'd added a mirage centre channel, yamaha rear amp, when dvd snuggled into my living room.
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i'd listened to a lot of components during the years of assembling the system and decided on the above mentioned and never looked back. they were within budgets of most for their days and became classics today.