Personal speaker evolution

Shrinermonkey?

I would love to know what inspired that moniker :^).

Well I've been putting this off long enough:
Maggie MMG
Pinnacle Gold
JM Labs Cobalt
Maggie 1.6
Montana SPX
Inffinity 2.6
Quad 988
Tyler Ref 3
JM Labs 1007
Montana EPS2

wow.....

Let's see if my memory fails me here or not: for fun I listed each speaker with a 0 to 10 scale, with 10 providing the highest "enjoyment" factor along with top strength. Also time frame owned.

Mirage 360 = 7 balanced and smooth, 5 years
Mirage i90 = 8.5 overachievers, 16 years, still have them
Legacy Classic = 7.5 nice loud, 5 years
Dynaudio Audience 50 = 8.5 rockers, very capable, 7 years
Dynaudio Contour 1.8 Mk II = 9.5 accurate timber, 3 years
Paradigm reference 100 Mk III = 7 nice mids, 4 months
Vienna Acoustics Mahler = 9 scary macro dynamics, 2 years
Monitor Audio RS 6 = 8 punchy, 6 months
Klipsch RF7 = 6 scary loud, 3 months
Stone Image Audio Rothchild A2 = 9.5 amazing micro dynamics
Totem Forest = 9 fast and airy, 4 months
Meadowlark Heron = 8 nice bass, 6 months
Mirage 290i = 5 colored, 2 months
Dynaudio Audience 52 = 8.5 Fun and capable, 4 months
Dynaudio Focus 140 = 8 dynamic envelop, 4 months
Dayton RS722 kit = 8.5 imaging champs, 4 months
ATC SCM 12 = 10 Wow, Wow, Wow, Keepers Keepers! since 11/08
ProAc Response 2.5 = 9 lifelike, currently for sale no room.

Moved in 06 and now have a difficult square room which may explain the shorter ownership period these last few years trying to find the right balance.

My 1st speakers were Klipsch KG 4's. I bought them in 1985 in MD at a little shop. I was thinking about a pr of Allisons.

Boston Acoustics VR 30's (1994)
Martin Logan Aerius i's
Aerial Acoustic 7B's (still have them)
McIntosh LS 360's
Montana XPS
EGGLESTON WORKS ANDRA III'S WOW!

scott something or another. 8" alinco woofer 2.5" paper tweeter pick them up on my way home from work when i was 16 some set them out for the trash. carried them home on a bike.

Pair i made had a sony 6920 6x9 remover the tweeter and glued on a dust cap and added a radio shack horn tweeter.

polk audio 5b loved these but just could not play loud.

pair i made 8" kicker with a 3x7 peizeo horn loud and clean.

went back to my 5bs' for a while

polk audio 10b

Advent Maestro

pair of subs I built using jbl 128h

sub i build using a JBL 2240g in a 10cuft box 124db at 40hz at 10feet 131 at 3 and could still do 118 db at 20hz at 3feet.

pair i built using klipsch 1079sv 5.25" drivers and a vifa d-19 tweeter

bought a pair of Panasonic sb600 at a gearge sale just to hear what they sounded like (awfull)

various speakers i have upgrade along the way.

latest project is to be
a 2 way using a jbl 2206 or a jbl 2214 as the 12" lf driver and selium d210ti drivers ona 6x11 horn crossover at 800hz
expetecd response should be 40-20k flat with 96db /1w/m and a max output around 116db with the 2214 and 124db with the 2206.