Speakers to hang on to for LIFE

The first high end speaker is the last speaker I will own, that is the Proac responce 2. I think that this speaker does many things right. When matched with their respective Target stands & coupled with a good subwoofer they will make magic. I would prefer a pair of Legend's but they were not out yet. I also feel that an upgrade should not involve much additional funds since the Proacs are an excellent speaker in itself.

Surfgod. I would heartily concurr with your speaker choice. Given good electronics and placed on proper stands in an appropriate room..... they will humble far too many so called hi-end speakers out there today, regardless of cost. Designed and tuned by an artist with a great ear for music. Sadly.... I sold my pair many years ago to upgrade to the response 3... which turned out to be a little to large and overpowered my smallish room at the time.

The answer to this question was very easy for me. I do own a couple of high-end speakers, both from Proac, but I always find myself wanting to upgrade them, to a model with the greater bandwith, sensitivity or looks, but there has been one speaker, which is my guest bedroom system that I have never upgraded,sold, or even thrown away. It is the Bose 10.2 Series 2. And while its performance is dwarfed by my larger, costier references, there is still a visual, musical allure about them which prevents me from getting rid of them. They are only driven by a 50wpc yamaha reciever and a 10 year old pioneer 10dsk cd changer. Its just so appealing as a low-end system that I cant get rid or it. Anyone else have these boses that they cant part with?

I love my Klipsch La Scalas whhc i have had some 15 years. Man they are big and even though they swallow up my living room, I'm hanging on to them. Heresy: I drive them through transistor amps but only because I have never found a reasonably priced valve amp. Sometimes I hang a thick bit of cloth in front of the top half of HF driver to damp the treble. But generally they do me straight. I'm just peering up at some lesser speakers, now on a shelf above my monitor: JBL 4301B Control Monitors, they are fab too. I pretty much go for JBLs for the kind of music I listen to.

1970 KLHS 17S/ 1996 VR3 vonshikers.