Personal speaker evolution

panasonic 2 ways $100 new
quadraflex $250 used
b&w dm110i's $400 new
silverline sr16's $850 used
dynaudio 1.3 mkII's $1200 used
TOTEM MODEL 1 SIGNATUR's $1700 new

SRL 4.4 (clueless bliss, my first purchase)
Original Carver Amazing loudspeaker (still have but, unused, plan to carve up into satellite sys with active crossover)
DCM Time Frame 1000
JBL L80t (still have but, unused)
JBL L100t3 (still have but, unused)
JBL 4410 monitors (current Garage system with ss)
VMPS towers, 240lb beasts (current Family room system with ss)
AR TWS-910 (still have but carving up for a project)
Original AR9 (current primary with tubes)
JBL L250ti (current Master bedroom system with ss)
Cambridge Soundworks M80 (just purchased for an office system with tubes)

I started in 1976 with some speakers from Team electronics. I think the brand was Atlantis? I was 16 and within 6 months I had went through every speaker they sold and ended up with with Bose 901s the best thing they had. I had the stands but eventually hung them from chains from my ceiling and when I crakned AC/DC they would swing because of the massive amounts of air coming from the ports in the back. I thought they sounded great and they went pretty loud. I had those for about 2 years and then I built a huge pair of speakers using Gauss 15" woofers in 6 cubic foot ported boxes. For mids I used JBL wooden horns hooked up to JBL 2461 midrange drivers and JBL2405 slot tweeters in their own seperate boxes. Now I had the same speakers that the bands were using to make the music. They were bi-amped with a yamaha power amp for the bass and a NAD integrated for the high end all running through passive and electronic crossovers. I was 18 and didn't have a car but EVERYBODY partied at my house!! LOL. With only 35 more watts per channel than with the bose I now had concert level decibles and I realized how bad the bose not only sucked watts but how bad they sounded. Then came marriage, kids, and the big speakers went in to storage. B&W 601 for years, then Totem Sttaf, and now I have JMR Offrandes, but I have the bug and I have been looking for some floorstanders that will get down to the low 20's. P.S. I sold the Bose for what I paid for them after owning them for 2 years and I just sold all of the individual components to the speakers I built in 1976 on Ebay.
Russ

Scott S-17 1972 $40 pair
EPI Microtowers 1975 $60 pair
B&O S45 1978 $300 pair
CHARTWELL LS3/5a 1980 $375 pair
Large Advent 1986 $125 pair
MAGNEPAN SMG1 1986 $475 pair
Theil CS2 1990 $750 pair
LINN KAN 2 1993 $400 pair
Cambridge Soundworks 1996 $500 pair
SOUND DYNAMICS 300 TI 1997 $525 pair
Paradigm Monitor 5 v2 2001 $400 pair
Von Schweikert VR1 2003 $899 pair
SPENDOR SP1/2 2003 $1000 pair

Overall favorites: LS3/5a and Magnepans.
Second tier: Spendor SP1/2, Linn Kan, Sound Dynamics

And a few others that we either HT oriented or short lived.

Wow, lets seeif I can remember.

*Design Acoustics DA-10 Sub/Sat System, mid-80's & college.
*Calibration Standard Instruments, (Ed Long Designed) MDM-TA3 near field studio monitors late 80's, mid 90's.
*Monitor Audio Silver 4i's, late 90's
*JM Labs Cobalt 826's Current
***COMING SOON... Totem Acoustic, Wind's***