Personal speaker evolution

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.

I too had the Bose, but that was before I knew there was such a thing as high end.
Advents- 1978
Bose 901-1979
Norman Labs-1984 Still have in the bedroom system
Carver ALS- 1991
Soundlab A2x-1992
Soundlab Aura 1996
Quadrature 4a 1998
Soundlav Aura 2001