Top Three Speakers you have owned.

bluecomet

For me I would have to divide it into two groups because the SRS speakers for me are a different breed all together.

1. SRS 1.2tl
2. SRT
3.SRS 2 p/b

1. Polk Lsi25
2. ADS L810
3. Sony SSK90ED

nhhiep

1C . Sold
Srt. Sold
Current. 707, 703, 706

Looking for srs 1.2tl in denver area

DollarDave

DollarDave wrote: »

Currently owned top 3 -
1. Vandersteen 2c
2. ADS L-710 (followed closely by ADS L-730 and ADS L-620's that I currently own)
3. Polk CRS+ 4.1TL

Former top 3's
1. Sony M-3
2. Polk LS-90
3. Epicure Model 2

Updated list
1. Hales Transcendence 5
2. Polk SDA 3.1TL
3. Vandersteen 2c

Still own my prior top 3, though.

daddyjt

2 ch

Legacy Focus 20/20
Infinity Kappa 9
NHT 2.5

HT

Klipsch RF 7, RC 7, RS7
Polk LS70, CS 350, LS F/X
Mirage M3, omnisats

mhardy6647

That I've owned?

1 and 2 are easy:
Altec 604E Duplex (MasteringLabs crossovers)
Quad ESL-"57"

3 is harder. Realistically (no pun intended!) probably the Allison Ones.
But the Altec Santiagos (878A, in my case) are very decent -- as were the 846A Valencias (although I may be the only living Altec fanboy who preferred the Santiagos to the Valencias).

Not stuff many of y'all are familiar with.

dromunds

I know those Allison Ones are sweet. My college roommate still has the pair he bought new. Uses them as surrounds with three Saulks across the front. Would like to listen to some Quads sometime.

Jimbo18

I don't usually post on a thread like this because I can't afford what most people on here can so my "bests" wont compare favorably with others. But my best speakers have come from advice on this site, so

1. Monitor 10's
2. Monitor 7's (I know most prefer the 7's but I actually liked the 10's slightly better)
3. RT800i's

And it's been a long time since I owned, or even heard them, but I have fond memories of the AR2ax's that I owned in the 70's. I would love to hear a pair today.

mrloren

I have not owned as much as most here but here it is

#1 Polk RTi8 current for over 10 years

#2 Advent Maestro (wife sold these trying to force me into in-ceiling as mains)

#3 Pioneer CS-06 ( great speakers I picked up in high school at a garage sale for cheap)

mhardy6647

Jimbo18 wrote: »

I don't usually post on a thread like this because I can't afford what most people on here can so my "bests" wont compare favorably with others. But my best speakers have come from advice on this site, so

1. Monitor 10's
2. Monitor 7's (I know most prefer the 7's but I actually liked the 10's slightly better)
3. RT800i's

And it's been a long time since I owned, or even heard them, but I have fond memories of the AR2ax's that I owned in the 70's. I would love to hear a pair today.

You're not alone, so don't feel bad.

The AR2ax was/is pretty OK. Very nice LF, if overdampted -- also possessing, to some extent, that somewhat distant "center of house" sound characteristic of the Villchur-era AR loudspeakers

I have a really ugly pair here -- also a much nicer pair of AR-3s. Good loudspeakers, but not top echelon, at least for my ears. I do like the bass of the classic AR loudspeakers -- although I am just not up for the kind of amplification they require "for best results"

1966 ARs by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

dromunds

AR-LST's in the head shop/record store in my hometown were exquisite. I ended up purchasing them from the guy a few years later (my buddy got his S.A.E. amp/preamp and Nakamichi 700 cassette deck) but the LST's never sounded that good in my little place, needed room to breath. Another pair of AR vintage speakers caught my attention one time: I was walking to a bar in college and on the way was a new stereo shop, but I didn't know it was there yet. They were playing a live album, I think it may have been Deep Purple Made In Japan or something. They were playing it loud and as I recall they had these new AR-9's outside with top-shelf amplification. I literally stopped in my tracks and thought a live band was playing. I had to actually go and check it out to make sure. And I wasn't even drinking yet. Ok, maybe one. Lol.

[Deleted User]

I'd love to have some AR-1's but not at the going rate!
These are fun:
Polk Monitor 7
Altec 849a
Polk SDS 400

pongshi

1. Dunlavy SC-IV Signature Series
2. Polk SDA SRS (modded)
3. Polk SDA 1C (modded)
Still own and using all of them.

Joey_V

This is easy.

1. My current reference
2. Rockport Avior
3. Sonus faber Stradivari

Moose68Bash

1. SDA SRS 1.2tl (modded)
2. SDA 1c (modded)
3. AR 3a

drumminman

1- Polk 2.3tl modded
2- Definitive Technology BP-30 modded
3- Polk RTA 12C modded

ken brydson

1- LS90's
2- Rta12B's
3- Hello Kitty boom box

zarrdoss

1 tie, Sony ES SS M7, NHT 3.3 current
2 Parts Express Solstice current
3 Vienna Acoustics Mozart Grand. Gone

teamjhertz

1. LSiM703
2. LSi15
3. RTiA9

daddyjt

ken brydson wrote: »

1- LS90's
2- Rta12B's
3- Hello Kitty boom box

I still remember sitting in Broadway Music in Salt Lake City UT in 1994, and listening to the LS 90 & LS 70 for hours, and trying to decide which ones to buy. To this day, I still don't know why I chose the 70s. Maybe because it left me enough $ to buy the CS 350. Over the years, I've wished a lot of center channels sounded more like the 350. I used that LS setup every day, for 20 years, in our family room. great stuff.

ken brydson

daddyjt wrote: »

ken brydson wrote: »

1- LS90's
2- Rta12B's
3- Hello Kitty boom box

I still remember sitting in Broadway Music in Salt Lake City UT in 1994, and listening to the LS 90 & LS 70 for hours, and trying to decide which ones to buy. To this day, I still don't know why I chose the 70s. Maybe because it left me enough $ to buy the CS 350. Over the years, I've wished a lot of center channels sounded more like the 350. I used that LS setup every day, for 20 years, in our family room. great stuff.

Look at my HT sig list...

sgmsmg

I have only ever owned Polk. For dedicated 2 channel listening I have only ever tried my LSi15's so I guess they would be 1st. LSiM 703's would be second because that is what I am currently using in my HT setup. The LSi9's would be 3rd although I never got to drive them with anything better than an CA 751R. They did sound great though. Honorably mention would go to the LSi25's.

halo

Best floorstanding speakers: (top down)
Dynaudio Focus 260
Von Schweikert VR2
Energy RC-70

Best bookshelf speakers: (in no particular order)
Dynaudio DM 2/6
Dynaudio Excite X14
Dynaudio Emit M20
Energy RC-10

Not really in either category:
InnerSound Eros MK II ESL hybrid

nooshinjohn

Looking at a set of Carver ALS at the moment...

Dabutcher

Infinity Quantum 3
SDA SRS 1.2
LSiM703

mrloren

zarrdoss wrote: »

1 tie, Sony ES SS M7, NHT 3.3 current
2 Parts Express Solstice current
3 Vienna Acoustics Mozart Grand. Gone

Yes the Sony ES SS M series are an awesome speaker. When I worked at Sony I was in the family store and they had these for (if I remember correct) $600 a pair and the 2 way's were like $400pr. I was going to get them but we lived in a town house and my neighbors were already complaining about the noise from my Advents.

A friend did get them with the Sony ES Amp and preamp. Oh my it was sweet. Poor dude lost it in the 2003 wild fire.

Ricardo

I don't think I ever posted here. So here it goes:

1) "Ultimate" Magnepan MMG; With wood frame and upgraded crossover. I was lucky enough to try a long list of speakers and if I was to come back seriously into the hobby this is what I would get (Or build again....)

2) Dynaudio Contour 1.3 Mk II: Only got rid of them because of number 1. But for a smallish room I could live very happy with these.

3) Hard to pick a 3rd one, but I'm going to go with an SDA. I had a few of them including the big boys, but if I had to pick one that would be the 3.1 TL. I found it to be the most musical of all I owned.

erniejade

Owned:
Legacy Focus
Carver Amazing
Vandersteen 3A

One day list if I had the $ and room: Legacy Aeris or Joseph Pearl 3
Without having the room but still had the $ : Dynaudio C1 or Joseph Pulsar

motorstereo

My top 3 in the order of preference would be
Polk 1.2tl's that will always be here
Ads 1530's which I'm listening to right now
Bozak concert grands which are gone now because they overpowered the too small room they were in

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PSOVLSK

Usher Mini Dancer 2
Usher 6311
Polk SDA 1C