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
Can't recall them all, but it's gone something like this: Aiwa minisystem w/ attached speakers, MB Quart floorstanders, JM Lab bookshelves, NHT SuperZero, Vandersteen 1, Vandersteen 2, Vandersteen 3, Quad ESL-63, Dunlavy SM1, Dunlavy Cantata, Von Schweikert VR-1, Von Schweikert VR-4 HSE, and, last but not least, Kharma Midi Exquisites.

And I wonder where all the money went. :)
Here's all I can remember

1)Tiny FM radio I bought with Newspaper route money
2)Fred Meyer (variety store) Integrated with card board boxes (it even had an 8 track player) WOW!
3)Old Zenith tube console with 15" speaker
4)Warfedale E70's, Blew em up three times with a Quatra amp
5)Scott? Huge Floor standers with top firing tweet and mids for that same dumb amp.
6)KEF Q10 second system
7)NHT 1.2
8)B&W Matrix 3E
9)NHT VS 1.4 Home Theater stuff
10)NHT SW 10
11)Sony junk speakers thrown in with a package deal on rack system. Then I threw them out.
and......
1) OHM H (think about $400 pair but don't remember) around 1977(?)
2) Large Advent (also don't remember but less than the OHMs) around 1978)
3) Dahlquist DQ-6, $500s for pair, plus stands, 1992
4) Aurum Cantus Leisure 2 (Chinese ribbon tweeter monitor), 2004
This thread was too humorous to pass up.

1) Technic 8" 2-ways
2) Some cheap 3-way with a 12" woofer - loud though
3) Genesis IIs - had these a long time
4) Mission 707s - had these the shortest time
5) Profile 2s - JSE clone
6) Profile 3s - JSE clone
7) Soliloquy 6.3s
B&O - forgot what model but the system looked really cool.
Dahlquist DQ-10 - one of the best speakers I have ever heard. Even today. Great stage presence.
EPI Model 100 - had to downsize (decided to go to college)
Dahlquist DQ-10 - again
Little Bose pieces of crap (Lifestyle 10 or something like that). I know, but I had to downsize, again, and wanted HT. They looked like a good idea but sit in front of them for about 20 minutes and they grate on you like crazy.
PSB Stratus Bronze (fronts). Fit budget and fits listening room. And sound pretty nice for HT and music.

Great idea for this thread.
Jack