PA speakers x 8 ( I was a teenager, driven by 1 BIG Rotel amp that broke obviously!)
Little TDL
Mission 780
Some castle floor standers
Blue Room
Linn Nexus
Ruark Epilogue
Various Bose systems
Peal Consult Princess with matching stands (Fantastic!!!) - still have them, couldn’t let go!
KEF LSX
Horns Aria II
Focal Sopra No2
Griffin Pheonix(?) up to 1980 ish
Heybrook HB2’s (for a week)
Linn Kans. 1980ish to mid 80’s
Linn Sara’s. mid 80’s to early 00’s
Linn Isobariks. early 00’s on
That’s it
Either an embarrassing short list or showing contentment
c. 1979 - No name music centre speaker
c. 1982 IAS (integrated Audio Systems) IB2
1999 to date Dynaudio Audience 50
A very short list for me, like some others.
Marsden Hall 150F’s (1974 - 79)
Tangent RS2’s (1979 - 85)
Linn Kans (1985 - 2001)
Royd Doublets (2001 - 2021)
Kudos X3’s (2021 - present)
I don’t change speakers much… None have been ‘large’. From the Kan’s onwards, the size & footprint has been near identical. Only the X3’s are a bit bigger but only by a few cm’s.
I’m sure I might miss some out, but here goes:-
KEF Coda
Linn Index
Monitor Audio 852
Castle Avon
Spendor A6R
and currently… Kudos Titan 606
1971 Wharfedale Unit 3 kit and self built cabinet
1974 Acoustic Research AR7
1976 Acoustic Research AR2ax
1979 Mission 700 ?
1983 Stax ELS F81 electrostatic
1988 Magneplanar MGIIIa
2005 Naim Credo
2005 Dali Rubicon 6
Only 5 sets of speakers over 42 years or so:
Kef Coda 2
B&WCDM2
Sonus Faber Minima Amator + REL Strata 3
B&W805D3 + REL Strata 3
Sonus Faber Olympica Nova 3 - the best by some distance!
Andy
KEF Cresta 2.
Bookshelf giant killer. I found that the port always buzzed along with the music at volume.
Remedied by wrapping black duct tape around the outside of the tube.
KEF Q35.
Floorstanding giant killer. These really started singing when sat on a granite plinth.
Ruark Prelude 2.
Another floorstanding giant killer.
These really responded to fine fettling.
Reference 3A Veena.
After fitting Ceraball universal footers, these speakers are almost once set up ones to forget about Hi-Fi and enjoy the music.
Apollo 66 (Probably made from balsa wood. Part of a complete system gifted by my parents following ‘O’ Levels in 1971)
Wharfedale Triton
Tannoy Cheviot
ARC 050
Linn Kan
Naim IBL
Naim SBL
Home made speakers with concentric full-range drivers (I won a school prize for these!)
Omar Göring - purchased from Radford HiFi, Bristol.
Rogers LS7 - purchased from Paul Green HiFi, Bath (I still use these upstairs with a Naim Nait).
Naim SBL - purchased 1995 from Grahams HiFi, London. Sold 2002.
Naim NBL - Purchased 2002 from Audio Excellence, Bristol, when Jason Gould was there. Sold 2022.
Kudos Titan 808 - Purchased 2022 from Cymbiosis.
As a student;
JPW Sonata.
KEF 140.
When earning;
Heybrook Trio.
Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MkII (NEVER should have got rid of these).
Moved temporarily into a rented house and the Dynaudios were a bit to big for the living room.
Not heard anything since that significantly betters them in terms of ‘musicality’, clarity and bass integration. They were not cheap when I bought them new in 2000.
KEF LS50 - lovely clarity but a bit lacking in substance.
Currently no speakers pending an extension build; hoping for floorstanders.
To people who say they shouldn’t have got rid of particular speakers, what made you do so at the time and what is it that makes you wish you’d kept them?
Kef Concerto
Heybrook HB3 (Series 2)
Kef Cantata
Kef Reference Series 105/2
Gale Mini Monitors in the office/mancave.
All second hand/preloved except for the Gale Mini Monitors.
Spendor SP2 (mk1).
… that’s it!
1994: Revolver Purdy as part of my first hifi bought in Richer Sounds when they were in Dublin
1998: B&W DM603 bought from Cloney Audio in Dublin
2005: Spendor S8e bought from Audio Room in Hull
2007: Naim SL2 bought from Signals after the guys took a trip over to Dublin with 4 sets of speakers in the van. (Sneakily they also had a 300 in the van!)
That’s it so far.
.sjb
Kef Celeste / purchased from Radford HiFi, Bristol
Linn Index / purchased from Radford HiFi, Bristol
naim iBL mk1 / selected at naim audio, Salisbury
naim iBL mk2 / updated to mk2 at naim audio Salisbury, and still playing here!
Wharfedale Dovedale 2.
TDL something or other with bright red waffle grilles.
B & W DM2 Mk. 2.
Neat Motive 2.
Neat Ultimatum MF5.
Neat Ultimatum MF7.
Neat Ultimatum MF9
Wharfedale Denton - 1979
Heybrook HBS1 - 1987
Dynaudio Contour 1.8S - 2004
Kudos S20 - 2016
Kudos 505 - 2020
Sound Design -MK2
JBL L100
Klipsch Cornwalls
PSB Gold Stratus i
PSB Platinum T-6
NBLs- active w 3-6-2 Snaxo
End game unless I win the lotto. Then onto large Proacs or Wilsons!
Decca - Borrowed from parents music centre
Nondescript - cheap from Boots
Wharfedale something or other
Heybrook Point 5
JPW Minim
Kef Q75
Linn Keilidh (Current)
Dynaudio Emit M10 (2nd system)