Speakers to hang on to for LIFE

If you're willing to entertain the Salons, have you considered the Vandersteen Model 5's?

If what they say about these is true, you'd have yourself a phenominal speaker system and save about $6k in the process.

They are a bit on the high maintenance side of life in the way of proper setup.

In 25 years I've switched speakers once, I own Avalon Acoustics now. Unlike many, they are worth considering.

MERLIN EXL-4 6 YEARS SO FAR & I DONT THINK IM GETTING RID OF THEM ANY TIME SOON

It is interesting to read everyone posts/opinions. I really don't think speaker design has really changed much - materials on the cones, maybe, but they are basically put together in the same way. It still is an art to design a speaker properly. All of the acoustic measurements you take will not work well in the real world and this is where most of our listening is done. Many designers use special chambers/rooms for their work and this may not equate well with the real world.

We went for simple and elegant - Royd Doublets - we definitely will keep them.

I bought my Martin Logan Sequels in 1987. At the time, I auditioned lots of very high quality loudspeakers including Kef 104/2, which I also liked very much, and Magnepans.

Here it is - 2002 and I still have them!! Of course they've been driven with high quality equipment, and I've taken wonderful care of them. I've had to replace the panels about 5 years ago, but other than that, they remain PERFECT! The sound still amazes me and I wouldn't trade them for anything!!!