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Your Loudspeaker history...

Whatever came with Fidelity record player
Whatever came with Akai "separates" catalogue system
Tannoy Eclipse
Arcam Delta 2 (had them for years before I found out how awful they were with the introduction of...)
Linn Kan 1 (my only "difference between night and day" experience in hifi)
Linn Kan 2
Mordaunt Short MS 20
Royd A7 mk2 (as good as the Kans but £200 cheaper on 2nd hand market)

Cheers

Rich
 
Does anyone old enough remember the Ferrograph S1 and S2? The S1 didn't get hugely well reviewed, but we had a special deal on the S2's and they were superb as I remember. BC1's took precedence for me, but the S2 (a medium sized "sort of" mini transmission line with B139 bass standing on a tripod stand with castors - oh the memories) sounded really good as I remember...
 
Pioneer ?
DIY with Vifa chassis
Energy 1
Mission 780
DIY with Fostex FE108 S
Triangle Comete
Epos 15m
Spendor SP 2/3
 
Wharfedale Linton (3 way speakers so must be better than 2 way!!)
Heybrook HB1's (Not the most subtle, but great fun)
Linn Keilidh - bi then tri active
Linn Espek - tri active
 
Mission 760
TDL Studio 1
Epos ES11
ProAc Response 1SC (best of the lot by far, had them for 11 years now)
Velodyne DD12 sub added to ProAcs a few years ago.
 
Celestion Ditton 15 (who didn't in the 70's?) ;)
Mission 70 Mk2
MA R352
Mission 737 (possibly the worst I've owned)
Celestion SL6 (2nd only to the above)
JPW P1
BLQ Q1
Tannoy Mercury
Boston A40
Mission 760
ProAc Super Tablette
ProAc Tablette 50 Sig
Kan Mk1
Quad 21L
Audio Note AX-2
JPW Mini Monitor (still got)
Royd Merlin (still got)
Castle Howard (still got, need repairing)
 
Mordunt Short cheap floor standing coffins
JM Lab Chorus 706 - Nice little things for the money, still got them
Royd Minstrels - Great fun, still got them
Epos ES22's - My favourite speaker
Neat Petite 3 - Plain wrong
ATC SCM12 - Good but to fussy and hard work
Vienna Acoustics Mozart - Big, warm and well finished
ProAc response 1sc
JM Lab Electra 906 - Bought a month ago but not as good as the Heco's
Heco Celan 300 on Sonus R4 - My current speaker for nearly a year which is a long time. Fantastic all rounder
 
as a teenager: A pair of 70s wharfedales from Comet
then
Mordaunt short MS10
B and W 601
Dynaudio audience 40
Dynaudio Audience 62
PMC GB1
Spendor 6e
Rega Kytes
Sonus Faber Minima FM2s

Finally realised I prefer small standmounts.

Kevin
 
Not necessarily in order of purchase.

Bose 901 mk 11 still in the loft and a bloody good party animal.
Linn Sara 1980's
Linn Kabers
Linn Kans
Linn Isobariks
Linn Kabers
PMC OB1
PMC LB1
Mission M72
Mission M73
Elac somethings (in the loft)
B&O big old lumps with goodman drivers
Quad 57
Quad 989
Magnaplanar MG1
Magneplanar SMGA
Magneplanar 2.5r
Magneplanar 2.5r (yes I have two pairs.
Apogee Centaur Minor
Mission X space
T&A omni's (similar to sonab)
Sphera (big round plastic balls from the 70's with goodman 401 axiom drivers)
Infinity Kappa 100
Wharfedale active Diamonds

Plus about half a dozen centre speakers.

Want to try:

The big TDL monitors
Yamaha 1000's
 
My list seems quite modest:

Homemade
Tangent XLR2
KEF 104/2 Ref
Mordaunt Short 10i - study system*
Tangent XLR2 (with modified x-over) - in loft*
TDL - passive sub - in loft*
Shahinian Obelisk - main system*
Canon S-35 - in case I want some rear speakers - in loft*

This has been most therapeutic - I thought I was bad until I looked throught the thread - thanks chaps :)
 
Goodmans RB35 (1977-1982)
Mordaunt-Short MS20s (1982-now: still in 'upstairs' system)
Castle Chesters (1994-2006)
Audiovector M3 Singnatures (2006-)
 
Looking at these long lists of speakers I must be either easily pleased, or a lot younger than some on this list.

85 - Some speakers pulled from a skip outside a renovated hotel (I kid you not)
89 - Celestion DL8 - bought as a student on a budget
93 - Epos ES11
06 - PMC OB1

That's my lot. The PMCs are on the main system, the ES11s on the second one.

Cesare
 
Some unmemorable Hitachi speakers with my first system
Heybrook HB2R
Naim SBL's (still going strong with a friends system)
Dynaudio Confidence 5's (superb but a bastard to drive)
 
Diamond IVs
Heybrook Point 5s
Epos E14s
PFM Specials (Ergo XIII(?)s in disguise)
Rega Kytes - second system on the end on a NAP160.
 
Over the years, and not necessarily in order, I have owned speakers by: Mission, B&W, Audio Note, ATC, Spendor, Harbeth, Cura, Tannoy, Jordan, and some others I've forgotten about. They were all very different.

-- Ian
 
kuma said:
Chaps,

Just curious... did you own all those speaker listed?
Click to expand...

Oh yes.

There isn't enough time left in my life to list the ones that were only passing through.

Cheers

P.S. never tried briks myself though, heard a couple of other peoples - I gather you're going to say I'm not missing anything? ;)
 
Pioneer x50h rack sytem speakers-Black
Audiomaster mls2's-Walnut
Linn Index mk1-Black
Linn Kans mk1-rosewood-my favourite and imho best ever Kans
Linn sara-Rosewood-canon plugs
Royd apex walnut-single amp/bi-amped then 4-pack active
Naim ibls's-black ash-four pack active-naims best ever speaker.
Avondale audio-metal monitors-four pack active-The first pair Les made
Avondale Audio-revelation 2-new model again the first of this kind-four pack active

Various av speakers packages,too numerous to mention.
 
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