Personal speaker evolution

Looking back its clear that I've made my contribution to B&W. Most of the B&Ws were from the same dealer who offered a full price trade up program.

Two pairs of homemade speakers – college/post college era
Allison CD 1 – new 350
Allison CD 3 – new 800
B&W DM620 – new ~600
B&W DM640 – new 1200**
B&W Matrix 804 – new ~1900
ACI Sapphire III/Sub 1 – new ~1800
B&W Matrix 802 S3 – new 3100**
B&W Matrix HTM – new ~640
B&W CDM2 – new ~700
B&W Matrix 805 – new ~1450**
Thiel CS7.2* - used ~7000**
Thiel MCS1 – new ~1900
Boston Acoustics Micro 90 surround* – new ~850
Paradigm 60v2, Ref CC, Ref ADP* - used ~1900
Aerial CC3B* – new 1350**
Aerial LR3s – new 2750**
B&W 601 S2 – new 370
B&W 602.5 S3* – new 620

*Still own and use in various systems
**Favorites

Jensen model?? (1975)
B&O model?? (tried to address time linearity) (1977)
Mission 770s (~1982)
NHT 2.5i (~1997)
Magnepan 1.6QR (1999)
Dunlavy SM-1 (2001) + REL Q150 (2002)
Dunlavy SC-VII (2005)

I am gonna have to show this thread to my wife. ..to get approval for the next bedroom speaker pair...

1) an all-muppets system (gift) - which IMHO came with hands-down the best turntable ever to bear an imprint of Kermit the Frog
2) Polk 3-way (free)
3) APOGEE Slant 8 ($4,000)
4) Avalon Opus - were to be Avalon Eidolon Diamonds before the recent unpleasantness with my now-ex... (for the speakers, not the ex)

... and to the best of my knowledge, the muppets system was not made by Bose in spite of wiring quality similarities

=)

This is a little off-topic, but with all of the *ahem*
comments on Bose, I though it might give everyone a chuckle. This week I had a real estate agent over to look at my townhouse in order to put it on the market; she sees my spare pair of Audiostatic ES100 panels and asks "what are those?". I told her they were loudspeakers and explained how they work, to which she replied "Oh, so are they like Bose? I've heard of those". I didn't want to hurt her feelings, so I replied "I don't think Bose makes this kind of speaker, but yeah, kind of".

And after all, who am I to talk- I've still got that pair of
4.2s pulling rear channel duty in my HT ;).