"High End" Speakers you have owned

[RBFC]

RTR180D, 1974
ESS AMT Monitor, 1976
Apogee Full Range 1986
Unity Audio PARM 1996
B&W 801D 2007

Theater: GoldenEar Triton One (6)

Favorite: Apogees with 4 Krell monoblocks & Apogee Active crossover. Krell KPA/KBL, SOTA Star Sapphire w/ Lyra Clavis cartridge. Purist Audio Colossus cabling.

 

[steve59]

I never liked subs for music at home. I can't get them to disappear.

 

[Jeffy]

I thought the same way until I used Velodyne DD series. I have great meld. The new plus series are not as good.

 

[GaryProtein]

Martin Logan CLS with Vandersteen subs.
ML Request
ML Statement E2
JM Labs Mini Utopia
Sonus Faber Cremona Monitors
MBL 101E with ML Statement E2 sub towers.
The Statements and Requests are gone, the rest is still in use.

I can't believe you had a ML Statement E2 and got rid of it!

I always thought they were spectacular.

Why did you get rid of it?

 

[LL21]

Martin Logan CLS with Vandersteen subs.
ML Request
ML Statement E2
JM Labs Mini Utopia
Sonus Faber Cremona Monitors
MBL 101E with ML Statement E2 sub towers.
The Statements and Requests are gone, the rest is still in use.

Quite an amazing grouping! Curious as to how the mighty Statement E2 compared with the mighty MBL101E + Statement Sub towers. Was there a reason you no longer have the Statement E2...would have thought those are the kind one keeps for life?

 

[Lagonda]

I can't believe you had a ML Statement E2 and got rid of it!

I always thought they were spectacular.

Why did you get rid of it?

Moved from a place in the US with a large listening room, to a place with a small one in Denmark. Sold them to a friend who promised i could have them back if i ever wanted, he died not long after. Great speaker system with a tendency to enlarge everything, drumkits are out of scale, performers often larger than life.
But i never heard a system with the sheer impact that these speakers have.
Mid-bass dynamiks are fantastic, and deep bass amazingly fast, In a room that can handle it. For home theater they where amazing, helicopters fly trough
the room and 18 wheelers drive right at you. My current setup does intimate settings better, and the MBL tweeter is more extended than what the panels can do, but i miss what the two columns of open baffled 16 7,5 inch drivers could do in the mid-bass !

 

[ptman]

My entrance into "high-end" was the Revel M20...two grand...likely more than I had paid for a full setup in the past.

Then Emerald Physics for a short period, followed by YG Acoustics Carmels almost five years ago.

To this day, I am amazed by the sound of the Carmels, and they just "work" within my room.

I've upgraded/replaced most of the component elements within the past few years, but the Carmels stay on, until the itch becomes too great.

 

[KeithR]

Since 2000...

Wilson Audio Cub 2 (replaced mid fi)
Dynaudio 1.3SE
Avantgarde Solo
Wilson Audio Sophia
NHT Classic 4
Dynaudio C1
Zu Definition Mk2 and Mk4
Devore Fidelity Gibbon X

 

[WeatherB]

Merlin 2B (1990)
Thiel CS 2.2 (1993)
Avalon Avatar (1996)
Wilson Sabrina (2018)

 

[Nemal1]

My father used to own, amongst others the following:
Tannoy Westminster
Stacked quad 57’s
Meridian M1
Beveridge system 3, whilst myself have had the following:
SKS model 1
Linn Sara
Quad 63
Martin Logan CLS IIz
Wilson system 7 and 8
Quad 2012 and currently using Sasha series 2.

 

[steve59]

Where does upper mid fi end and hifi begin?
Usher BE-20 DMD
Revel Salon 1
Revel Salon 2
Revel f52
Vienna acoustics Strauss
Vienna Acoustics Beethoven
Kef R107/2
Kef R105/3
ADS L9e
Are any of these hifi? They're as hifi as i'm ever gonna get. BTW several of these speakers are for sale.

 

[steve59]

Post 106...if we had to get a pic of someone mooning the camera I wish it would have been the other in the photo. Seriously tho' beautiful room and spectacular view, congratulations.

 

[DonH50]

IRS 2
Magnepan MG-IIIa
Revel Salon 2

Many "high-end" speakers lived for a bit in my system when I was working in the audio biz and was able to bring them home for a while.

 

[sbnx]

Speakers I have owned. I guess they represent my spiral into audiophilia. IMHO each speaker is sonically and technical better than the previous. Although it would be interesting the hear the Eggleston in my current dedicated room.

B&W Matrix 804 -- First high end speaker
B&W matrix 801 series 3 -- nice upgrade in the bass
B&W Nautilus 802 -- Newer is better right? My wife liked the form factor a lot better
Eggleston Andra II -- Moving on from the B&W sound
Wilson MAXX 2 -- I liked this speaker but never fell in love with the sound
Vivid Giya G1 -- WOW! I love how this speaker plays music.

 

[Blackmorec]

Hmmmm....interesting memories
Kef 104 Reference
AR3a
Linn Isobarik
Naim SBL
Naim SBL Active
Sonus Faber Extrema
Avantgarde Duo with 2 x 225 CTRL subs
Avantgarde Trio with 4 x 224 CTRL subs
Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage with Gravis subwoofer
Magico S1 MkII

Most of the changes in speakers coincided with changes in listening rooms