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Your Loudspeaker history...

Jonathan Ribee

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Mike missed this one - and when rodrat gets here I want to see what happens when a single post is greater than the length of a page on a thread...

oh...

Homemade
AR something
Mission 731i
Mission 760
Kef Q35
Celestion A3
Quad ESL "57"
Quad ESL 989
And some little Quad 11L for the office

Future: stacked 57s, 63s, 2905s - then maybe some really big stats. Stacked 989s???
 
Mission
Mission
Kef
Dynaudio Contour 1.1 for ages...
...now AVI ADM9 ( < you probably haven't heard of these.)
 
B&O Beovox 600's
Audiomaster Image 1
Audiomaster Image 2
Spendor BC1
Linn Isobarik Teak chipboard Scan
Linn Isobarik Walnut MDF Hiq:
Linn Isobarik Black Ash MDF Hiq: Quacky B110's - uggghhh!
Snell Type "E" - God they're awful out of their comfort zone...
Yamaha NS1000M's
Epos ES14's - various Chesham built ones
Harbeth HL5's
Celef Studio Professional Monitor (or something hifi dave will correct)
ATC SCM20's - lacquered red - mmmmmm!
ATC SCM100A's - lacquered Black - I cried when I (had to) sold them...
Musical Technology Harrier SE
AVI Positron - lovely but not loud enough at the time...
Linn Keilidhs
Wilson Benesch Act 1 - the least said about these the better
ATC SCM20SL 'Pro on Something Solid heavyweight 24" stands
 
Mission something stand mounted
Celestion SL6
Epos ES11
Heybrook Sextets MKIV
Dali Royal Menuet II (for the office)
Spendor S6e - not looking to change
 
1971 Wharfedale Kit 2 driver version (lost on travels)
Next a small cube 155mm each side, an unknown make from Tandy (had an M on it) thought these were wonderful ~ single driver paper cone & whizzer .. my son has them now
Next Mission 760 i ~ good still have them in second system
Next Diy Jordan JX92 ~ superb .. followed by JX53 linear array & JX125 bass units (not looking for anything else, but may redesign cabinets for the 53's & 125's)
 
B&W DM100i
Castle Trent
Mission 760
Kef C55
Acoustic Energy AE100i
Acoustic Energy AE109
Castle Durhams
Kef Q55
Kef Q30
Neat Mystique
Linn Kaber
Meadowlark Swift
Castle Conway
Wharfedale Diamond IV
Wharfedale 504
Audio Innovations Alto
Mission 771
Mission 774
Ruark Broadswords
Celestion DL4
Celestion Ditton 11
Gale Gold monitor
B&W CDM2
Tannoy MX1
Tannoy 607
Tannoy 638
Tannoy E11 LE
Tannoy DC2000
Linn Helix
Linn Keilidh

I'll have to dig out the files for the rest.
 
Cabasse active
Kan
Sara
Isobarik active
Keltik active
Akurate active/Artikulat sub
Komri (passive but that is to change...)
 
JR 149
Kef 101
Tannoy M20 Gold
Gale 301
Linn Kan II
Linn Isobarik
ProAc Tablette 50 Sig
Linn Kan I
Linn Kan II
Heybrook Point 5*
Harbeth Compact 7ES
Heybrook HB2*
Quad 11L*
Klipsch Heresy*

* second system.

Others have passed through on lengthy dem / borrowed from friends such as AR14, white face Mission 770s, Linn Saras etc but no money changed hands.

Tony.
 
Mission -something
NHT -something with built-in passive subwoofers that were more woof than sub
Tannoy System 800 (passive studio monitors)
Neat Elite SE (on Mana phase 2 right now)

had at the house for extended periods: Kan I, Royd Minstrel SE, Royd Sorcerors, Royd Albions, Naim Credos, Linn Kabers, Epos 14s, LS35A, JMLab 950?, Totem Tabu

vuk.

p.s. if ross blackman posts here, tony will have to extend the maximum height of a PFM page.
 
AR18BX
Leak Sandwich
Linn Kan
Linn Sara
Linn isobarik passive
Linn isobarik split
Linn isobarik active
 
1975 Solavox - cheap things from Comet!
1980 Kef Celeste
1985 Gale 401a
1992 Snell K
2003 More Snell K
2007 Tannoy System 1000 (Dual Concentric studio speaker)

Andy
 
Some old Bolivar things with cone tweeters in about 1976.
Goodmans RB20
Heybrook HB2
Spendor LS3/5a
Warfdale Diamonds
Celestion DL4
Chartwell PM110
Chartwell PM210
Lowther Classic 400
Celestion SL6 (the worst speaker in the world)
Mission/Cyrus 780
Gale 301
Epos ES14
Monitor Audio MA700GMD
TDL Studio 1
Rega ELA
Mission 750LE
Linn Kan II
Naim SBL
Naim IBL
Graves Koronglay - Lowther EX2 drivers
Impulse H2
Rega R1
Usher S520 - pants
AVI Neutron IV
Epos ES11

Like Tony a fair few more have been borrowed and tried over the years.

Now back with my H2s and it's like the return of old friends :)
 
I am surprisingly un-fussy about speakers and can acclimatise to different styles of presentation pretty quickly.

Here's my list.

KEF Cresta 2
B&W 602 S2
Tannoy Revolution R3
AVI Neutron IV
Naim Credo
PMC GB1

Lefty
 
Sony ....things....
Mission 751s
Mission 753s
Big JBL things
Tannoy 6s
LS 5s
ESL 57s (should have kept them.........)
Credos
Audio Physic ??? - mid size floorstanders
Dynaudio Contour 1.1
Dynaudio Contour 1.3
Dynaudio Foccus
Merlin VSM (Bliss...............)
 


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