Personal speaker evolution

Missing several pairs but here we go..

Kef C-25's $350.00
Kef C-95's $1000.00
KEF 103.2s $1300.00 (these were Nice...)
ADS SAT 6 $1500.00 (should never have sold)
Energy 3.1 (Big mistake)..
Signet SL260 $450.00
Celestion 7 $500.00 (weak moment purchase..)
ADS M-9's $1100.00
JM Lab Cobalt 810's $1500.00
Sonus Faber Concertino Home $1100.00
Tyler Acoustics Taylo Reference Montitors...$1800.00 (I love these speakers)

KiD

1988-1993 Boston Acoustic A60 $60 used
1993-2000 Vandersteen 1B $400 used w/ stands
2000-2001 Infinity Entra 1 $300 new (sold vandys when moved)
2001-now B&W CDM 1nt + Velodyne CT100 $1100 + 400 new

Ok, here is mine:

1. pre 1988: Tower speakers - no idea of brand/price, 15" woofers
2. 1988-1990: Advent bookshelfs - ~$100
3. 1991: Yamaha YST-A10 (I think) bookshelfs - ~$89/each?
4. 1992: Infinity SM115 - $500 for the pair
5. 1992-2002: Infinity Kappa 8 - $700 used (mains, then surrounds)
6. 1993-2002: INFINITY KAPPA 9 - $1280 new
7. 2002-: INFINITY IRS BETA - $4050 plus shipping and refoaming
8. 2002-: Infinity IRS Gamma - $2500 (needs new woofers)
9. 2002-: INFINITY IRS BETA - $3000 (I couldn't pass up another pair)
10. 2002-: INFINITY IRS V - $24000 (gotta hear it for brand loyalty!)

I think I am done "evolving" my speakers, but I need some lower end ones for the rest of the house...

Mrpoindexter: Please don't tell us you're using the two pairs of Betas as surrounds with the IRS as the main front speakers in an HT set-up!!! What's your listening room, Royal Albert Hall??

My listening room is really too small for what these speakers need. If you would like to see some pictures, I could email them. Send me your email and you can see how big speakers look in a small room. I can't even use my projector right now because the IRS V blocks about 30% of my screen.

I have the IRS V set up as mains and am using the Gammas as my rears for the moment. I need to pick up a couple more amps and then will move the dual betas into the surround position and the gammas will lay on their sides and become the center channel.

If I decide to matrix a center surround, I will split the gammas and get a pair of modulus for the ceiling effect speakers.

If infinity made an IRS Center and IRS Surround, then I would have had them instead, but unfortunately the didn't, so I guess I am stuck with betas.