yuckyamson
pfm Member
Tannoy 15" monitor golds.
I'm still crying.
I'm still crying.
Bose 901 mk11. I still have these in the loft. What I miss is that when I bought them new in 1975 and used them with a monster JVC Quadraphonic amp, they were the best party speakers ever. I used to have loads of parties back then. At the time I was not interested in 'hifi' and more swayed by pointless marketing bumf such as they could handle 270 watts RMS per channel. Perhaps innocence was more fun back in the day.
I have owned exactly three pairs of shop-bought loudspeakers in the three and a half decades I've been donkey deep in hifi. I don't miss any of them.
1981 - 1987: Acoustic Research AR94, somewhat muddy-sounding but great bass until the foam surrounds disintegrated.
1987 - 2000: Linn Nexus, mellifluous but duller than tepid dishwater.
2000 - 2004: Sonus Faber Concerto, fabulous aesthetic and midrange, but unrefined top-end and farty bottom-end.
Some speakers I miss but never owned were the Rhedekos. On the end of a DNM system of course.
Bose 901 mk11. I still have these in the loft. What I miss is that when I bought them new in 1975 and used them with a monster JVC Quadraphonic amp, they were the best party speakers ever. I used to have loads of parties back then. At the time I was not interested in 'hifi' and more swayed by pointless marketing bumf such as they could handle 270 watts RMS per channel. Perhaps innocence was more fun back in the day.
Only ones which I'd really like to try again are...
British Loudspeakers (BLQ) Q1
Monitor Audio R352