Personal speaker evolution

Kef 101 $900 - 1979
Infinite Slope model 1 $920 - 1985

SILVERLINE AUDIO SONATINA (VERSION 1) $3500 - 2000

Old radio with built in record changer that played 78's, age 5-7, in the late 50's. Then a one box record player. Moved up to stereo, with a fold together/fold up to make one box system (moving through 60's & into teens). Late teens,alligator clipped the speaker wires inside that and ran it through a Fender piggyback guitar amp and did Jimi Hendrix. 1975-went to new system after college, and started with Small Advents, and within year, did the trade in special to Large Advents, which lasted until '91 when the foam had gone and I finally finished grad school (2nd try).Dahlquist 901's replaced them with my 1975 HK receiver and Sansui turntable. Uh oh, upgrade bug hits big, - can we say "cd"? Then, Melos pre,Acurus A250, Oh my. 901's lasted several years, until the Paradigm Studio Reference 100's came out, which have remained through the various other upgrades of everything except Melos 111B pre, which for some reason I never get the urge to change. Paradigm Atoms & matching Paradigms for HT, and Atoms for the bedroom (There's that HK receiver). Sold BR Atoms to a friend and just got Sound Dynamics RTS 3's for $139 (new) to replace them.The old radio is still in dad's basement, and my apologies to him for that Fender thing. It was a small house.

1982 PHILIPS 475 with possibly one of the best tweeters made up to yr?...thing still blows away ALL the B&W tweets. now i'm going to the top..MANGER FULL RANGE

tweek- I was affraid you were going to show up :) you have gone through your share of changes in the last 6 months alone! will there ever be an end???? lol I sure hope not.
~Tim

Fisher 3 ways You have to start with something.

Dahlquist DQ 10 A great speaker. I bet if they would be competitive today.

Acoustat 4 - A great company that was a victim of HPs apparent displeasure, credit card sound (remember that) and greed. The 2+2s were even better.

Magnepan MG III The MG III much more dependable then then 3.6. I lost one tweeter in 18 years.

Magnepan MG 3.6 I good sounding speaker, but the ribbon tweeters were very delicate. In six months I went through 3 ribbons. I was using the same electronics and room. Very dissatisfied with Magnepan.

Revel Studios For one week. They sounded great. Bought on Audiogon.
I then saw a pair of Salons on Audiogon, and sold the Studios, and bought the Salons. What an awesome speaker! I'm now thinking of adding Revel Performa B15 Subwoofers to round out the bass.