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Has anyone considered rebuying a speaker you once owned??

I am curious if any one has ever considered buying a speaker previously owned and liked, but decided to either downsize or look for a "different" type of sound. 

I ask because I purchased a pair of Acoustic Zen Adagios speakers about 5-6 years ago, and decided to downsize the system with a less heavy speaker that was easier to move around.  The Adagios were 80 lbs each.  I currently own a pair Golden Ear Technology model 7 speakers (purchased in 2014)  which are smaller and lighter at 37 lbs each. The Adagios are 50 inches tall, and the GET 7's are 40inches with a slimmer profile. 

I realize the Adagios  are almost three and a half times more expensive than GET 7's. which are $1395. They can sound very good, but I have come to realize they are not in the same league sound quality wise as AZ Adagios. and  may possibly be the best speaker I ever owned.   Of course, hindsight or hindsound is a wonderful thing.    Thanks,  SJ   

  

 

sunnyjim
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Another speaker I sort of let get away that I'd love to re-buy:

Waveform Mach Solo.

These were the smaller version of the mighty Mach 17s - famous for their egg-module head containing the midrange and tweeter - that John Otvos sold for only a short time before he closed his company.  Very, very few were made and sold.  I reviewed them at one point in my room and they were stunning, both in looks and sound.  But...didn't buy them at the time.

A few years back I grabbed some second hand Waveform Mach MC monitors from audiogon - essentially just the egg module of the Mack 17/Mach Solo.  Whenever I set those up and listen I'm just taken aback at their incredible combination of neutrality, natural warmth of timbre, boxless soundstaging and liveliness.  Make me pine for the floor stander Mach Solos which had incredible bass.  But...they pretty much never appear on the used market.
whitestix
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Rectilear III's (not the low boys).  I got them 40 years ago and sold them 30 years ago, but they were sublime.  
sunnyjim OP
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I want to thank everyone who has responded to this thread.  I have read more than half, and I think it was as much fun for the responders as it was for me to read about past speakers they cherished.

To whitetix.  Unless, I am suffering from speaker. nostalgia, I agree that Rectilinear 3's (high boys) were sublime.  They sounded like music and held your attention. The only other speaker of past years that exceeded their sound quality was IMF TLS 80's which occasionally show up on AG.

Thanks for the memories. S.J.

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noromance
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Yup. Quad ESL57. You know how it goes. Black this time.

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bdp24
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Noromance is not alone---there are a number of multiple-time Quad ESL owners around. Hard to live with, hard to live without.
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