EPI 180's
When I was 16, around 1980, I saved my minimum wage dollars ($2.85 and hour- remember that?!?) and marched into a stereo store. At the time, the fashion was huge 15"woofers and multiple midrange and tweeters jammed into a box. The salesman showed me these EPI speakers. They seemed so unimpressive to my uneducated eye. A pair of 6" woofers coupled with a pair of ferrofluid inverted dome tweeters. The salesman explained to be that two 6" driver's were the " same" as a 12 woofer but faster. It made sense to me and being 16, I wasn't about to argue with a " grown-up " 20-something salesman. I bought them along with a Pioneer integrated amp and a Technics turntable. Well, seems the sales guy steered me right.
I enjoyed those EPI speakers for a good 10 years before throwing them in the burn pile (nothing wrong with them, I just replaced them with something way more expensive. Can't believe how stupid I was when I was young!). I wish that 35 years later, I could, just for maybe an hour, hear them again. They were so much better than I ever realized.
Anyway, when other boys my age were saving for a car, I was saving for my first system. Some things never change 🙂