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
As near as I can remember, it went like this:
University 620l (Karlson cabinet)
KLH-6
Infinity 2000A
2nd pair of 2000As
Magnepan MG-2
Magnepan MG-3
ProAc Response 2
ProAc Response 3
Gallo Ultimates
Jbl lanzer 77 - From my father
JBL g400 - $400
DEV TECH BP2002 - $1200 on close out
DEV TECH BP2002TL - exchanged for 2002 for waranty reasons
B&W N802 - $5600 dealer demo
Good thread!
AR-14 ($200 in 1976 -- reconed once, still own, in son's room)
Thiel CS 2.3 -- traded in for
Thiel CS 6 -- still own, can't bring myself to sell them though I have to
Montana KAS -- Bound for Sound review pair
Paradigm 100 v2 (w matched center & rear -- home theater)
Infinity 10" subwoofer ($150?)
Plus, lots of home demos -- B&W, Klipsch, Definitive Tech...
Plus, several inexpensive small bookshelves: not Bose ;-)
As you can tell, I was an audiophile wannabe for a long time but didn't hit it hard until about 5 years ago.
Cheers.
Hmm- of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. Prices have completely disappeared, but I bet I've got a pretty good handle on the speakers.
1. Rat Shack 2 ways 1 yr.
2. Rectilinear Mini 3s 2 yrs.
3. Small Advents
4. Large Advents
5. Infinity RSb (still sitting in my basement after 15 years).
6. Vandersteen 2cis 12 years
7. Vandesteen 3Asigs 1 month
various homemade
a few that I can't remember their names
New Large Advents
JBL 100 something or another
Bose 901
another pair of 901, stacked them up
homemade sub with 18 inch JBL 2245H
(450 watts into the 901's and 2000 for the JBL, loud and proud until I got married and, well, you know)
AR sub/satellite 660
Alon Petite with woofer
Magnepan 1.5 with 2 Vandersteen 2W subs
B&W 801 matrix III
Wilson Witt II
Soliloquy 8.2 (still have, see my ad (shameless plug))
Lamhorn 1.8, present system with MBL 201 sub, Ahhhhhhhhh

I was impressed with all of them at the time I bought them. Yes, even the 901's.