Speakers to hang on to for LIFE

zaikesman...i purchased my last pair of allisons during (what appears to be)their final incarnation. slightly more refined than the late seventies models I owned at the time. it still amazes me that my 3 is my prefered speaker over anything i've heard when it comes to 'putting you in the venue' or 'studio'. the last pair of ones and fours i owned were excellent as well, but like many stereo nuts, i thought moving on was moving up.

For a secondary system, these small speakers are sublime!
Look (glossy black, small and nice proportions) and Sound.
Despite cheap components being used.
The guy who calculated the enclosure and the crossover is a genius.

Yves

Yves- And that speaker would be??????????????

In 2004 I posted Canton Karat M70 loudspeakers.
I still have them!!! Every other component in the system(main home theater) has been changed several times over,but the Cantons and their matching center channel speaker are still here!

Many speakers have come and gone in my listening space, but the one true constant has been my Infinity Kappa 9's.

No other speaker I have tried, so far, has been able to recreate the sheer dynamics, scale, and believability of the Kappa's.

I think the only way up for me is simply a bigger pair of Infinity's, perhaps the Beta’s or Epsilon’s, but I’m really not that bothered to look.