Speaker hoarding

boston1450

Have you ever had way too many speakers and didnt want to rid of any ? I find myself to the point i like them all ! Wife thinks im nuts !! Im thinking of finishing off basement for another small music room to hide..i have a few sets of spare speakers that are just sitting in limbo & HATE the thoughts of weeding them out:sad: am i alone here ?

rromeo923

I know what you mean.

mhardy6647

The problem with speakers is that they're fairly large.
The up side of traditional "monkey coffin" designs is that they make pretty good stands to put other equipment (or even more speakers) on top of :-)

Dabutcher

I have that very problem. The wife has solved it to a point. To speakers come in the house. Two speakers have to leave the house. The upside is I can have as many as I want in the garage. Good luck. D

ZLTFUL

I can't give you any advice as I currently have the following in my house:

2x LSi25
4x LSi15
2x LSiC
2x LSiFX
2x RTA15TL
2x RT/FX
2x Monitor 70 SII
2x Monitor 30 SII
1x CS1
2x Klipsch Synergy Sub10
1x DSW MicroPro2000

erniejade

Until the girlfriend moved in with 2 kids, I had SDA 1.2, SDA 2.3, Carver amazing original, Vandersteen 3a, Vandersteen 2ce sig, JM Labs 815, Polk 10b, JBL L150 ( I actually miss the JBL's. They are my I regret selling speaker) JBL L100, and a set of norman.

soundfreak1

LOL just bought a pair of 5jr's just because they came available! Dont really need them BUT THEY WERE AVAILABLE!

NJPOLKER

I have nice monitor 10's sda 2a's and a real nice pair of srs2's sitting in my home in New Jersey with my x-wife. They just sit around waiting for me to come rescue them. I have finally put the PSB T Towers to work in my living room and my SF GPD are my primary speakers in my listening room.

Five pair of speakers and use two, not too bad I bet compared to all the nuts around here.

The SRS2's should be sold to someone so they can enjoy them. I'd hate to part with them though.......... typical? YES

Dawgfish

Let see currently I have a set of SRS 2s, CRSs, Monitor 10s, LSiM 703s, DCM Timewindow 3s, ZU Omens, DCM Timeframe 350s and 400s, and Magnepan MMGs. I definitely know where you are coming from!

George Grand

AR 4x (Still in boxes, I don’t think they’ve ever been used)
AR 5
AR 9
AR 9LSI (headed to my bud Ray in Brooklyn)
AR 28
AR 216PS
AR 302
AR 338
ADC 210
Allison Acoustics Model 6
Roy Allison Labs “Mini-Monitor”
B&W CC3 (center channel spkr)
B&W “Rock Solids”
BIC V52s
Bose 100 (three pieces, one shielded)
Bose 101
Bose 2.2
Bose 201 Series II
Bose 201 Series III
Bose 201 Series IV
Bose Acoustimass 3 Powered Sub/Sat System (sub only)
Boston Acoustics CR6
Boston Acoustics HD8
Carver Amazing Platinum Mk.IV
Celestion CS135 Passive sub
Definitive Technology Powered Sub
Design Acoustics PS8C
Dynaco A-25 (two pair)
Electro-Voice “Marquis”
Fried Q3
Heathkit AS18
Heathkit
Infinity Reference 2002.2
Jamo 100 (Center Channel)
Jamo Compact 90
JBL 4411 (one only)
JBL E20
JBL P10
JBL P20
KEF Chorale
Klipsch KM2
Klipsch KM-CC (Center Channel)
Lafayette Radio Electronics “Pip Speaks”
Parasound BPI450 Passive Sub
Pinnacle Powered Sub
Polk Monitor 5 Jr.
Polk RT-3
Polk Sub
RCA Minimus 7 (ported Min 7 knock-offs, Radio Shack catalogue # 40-5001)
Realistic/Optimus Minimus 7 (maybe ten pair incl’. one wood pair, and a few PRO 7 also)
Realistic/Optimus Minimus 77
Speakerlab One
Yamaha YST-SW010 Powered Sub
Yamaha YST-SW100 Powered Sub
Yamaha Mini Spkrs

boston1450

Holey moley. Lol speaker dream land

nooshinjohn

Perhaps listing all of them here would be therapeutic and help you on the road to recovery. Don't forget to put prices next to them.:twisted::cheesygrin:

cnh

Well, I think George has just convinced me that I don't have enough speakers! Even though I do have a couple of closets that have the following in them waiting for their rotation:

HH Scott S-11
Paradigm 7se MK? (don't remember the model number 8" two way)
Polk TSI-300 (waiting for their chance when I decide to go 7.1)
Realistic MC1000 (nothing special, all mids and highs, almost no real bass--but nice wood finish, came with receiver)
Realistic Nova 7B and Nova 8s
Minimus 7W (wood finish, the classiest of the 7s, also have a black aluminum pair on an STA 700)
SDA 2B (not currently on the Tube amp, but soon to be rotated in)
Monitor 10As (waiting for grills so they can move to a supplementary two channel in the main HT room)
Dayton Audio B652
KLH 911b
EPI 120C
There are probably others!

In use:
Monitor 5As
CSW Model Six
KLH 17
ADS L520
Dynaco A25
JBL L80t
LSI-7s
Advent OLA
EPI 100V

As per mhardy. A lot of the above is stacked three pairs high and attached to various vintage receivers or integrateds:
Realistic STAs
Sansui
Yamaha
Pioneer
JVC
Marantz
Kenwood
Harman Kardon and so on.

And, it goes without saying that my wife thinks I'm a little mad? Fortunately I have a finished basement, an upstairs office and a HT room on the first floor, oh...and closet space! lol

cnh

tonyb

cnh wrote: »

And, it goes without saying that my wife thinks I'm a little mad?
cnh

Tell the wife she's not alone in her thoughts. :biggrin:

Dawgfish

Holy crap! I thought I was bad. :-)

Timothy Smith

Currently down to:

Dahlquist DQ-20 (2 sets)
Dahlquist DQ-10
Acoustat Spectra 1100
Snell J-3's
EPI 150
EPI 400
ADS L-570
Quad 11L
Polk RTA-12
Polk RM-3000 sub/sat

Moose68Bash

Reading this thread is, in and of itself, therapeutic.

I now know how far I have to go to feel that I'm going over the top! The wall is very, very high!

zingo

I don't have that issue as I'd rather sell them and put the money toward something else, then sell those and put the money towards something else, then sell those and put the money towards something else.

Is there a thread that's the opposite to this one? I'm sure I'm not the only one with that problem..

cnh

zingo wrote: »

I don't have that issue as I'd rather sell them and put the money toward something else, then sell those and put the money towards something else, then sell those and put the money towards something else.

Is there a thread that's the opposite to this one? I'm sure I'm not the only one with that problem..

Somebody should start that thread because, bad as hoarding might be, and I'm not saying it "is"; the SPEED with which some people here move through speakers and equipment makes the Enterprise seem like it's not even pushing impulse power.

Considering that they say that audio memory is very very "short term". It is unlikely that such rapid movement leads to any real long term assessments and comparisons between various pieces that carry much weight. It takes a LONG period to get to know a sound or the performance of a set of speakers or amps, etc. At least it does for me.

I've listened to my KLH 17s for almost a couple of years and they still surprise me, on occasion.

cnh

boston1450

nooshinjohn wrote: »

Perhaps listing all of them here would be therapeutic and help you on the road to recovery. Don't forget to put prices next to them.:twisted::cheesygrin:

..we would probably cry. Lol

mhardy6647

soundfreak1 wrote: »

LOL just bought a pair of 5jr's just because they came available! Dont really need them BUT THEY WERE AVAILABLE!

I would so do that myself if the opportunity presented itself; I've never (knowingly) heard a pair of the "jr" version - I am most curious about them.

The two other things I'd have a hard time resisting is an early pair of Monitor 4 (with the Peerless tweeters) and, a sentimental favorite, a pair of the original, trapezoidal enclosure, Mini-Monitors. You know, for my Chevy Van ;-)

NJPOLKER

George Grand wrote: »

AR 4x (Still in boxes, I don’t think they’ve ever been used)
AR 5
AR 9
AR 9LSI (headed to my bud Ray in Brooklyn)
AR 28
AR 216PS
AR 302
AR 338
ADC 210
Allison Acoustics Model 6
Roy Allison Labs “Mini-Monitor”
B&W CC3 (center channel spkr)
B&W “Rock Solids”
BIC V52s
Bose 100 (three pieces, one shielded)
Bose 101
Bose 2.2
Bose 201 Series II
Bose 201 Series III
Bose 201 Series IV
Bose Acoustimass 3 Powered Sub/Sat System (sub only)
Boston Acoustics CR6
Boston Acoustics HD8
Carver Amazing Platinum Mk.IV
Celestion CS135 Passive sub
Definitive Technology Powered Sub
Design Acoustics PS8C
Dynaco A-25 (two pair)
Electro-Voice “Marquis”
Fried Q3
Heathkit AS18
Heathkit
Infinity Reference 2002.2
Jamo 100 (Center Channel)
Jamo Compact 90
JBL 4411 (one only)
JBL E20
JBL P10
JBL P20
KEF Chorale
Klipsch KM2
Klipsch KM-CC (Center Channel)
Lafayette Radio Electronics “Pip Speaks”
Parasound BPI450 Passive Sub
Pinnacle Powered Sub
Polk Monitor 5 Jr.
Polk RT-3
Polk Sub
RCA Minimus 7 (ported Min 7 knock-offs, Radio Shack catalogue # 40-5001)
Realistic/Optimus Minimus 7 (maybe ten pair incl’. one wood pair, and a few PRO 7 also)
Realistic/Optimus Minimus 77
Speakerlab One
Yamaha YST-SW010 Powered Sub
Yamaha YST-SW100 Powered Sub
Yamaha Mini Spkrs

Just as I thought another nut from NJ ooooopps I am not from NJ anymore.

mhardy6647

Notice that I am not sharing a laundry list of the loudspeakers at my house...

I do get Polks the old fashioned way, though - we grow 'em...

eclypse

mhardy6647 wrote: »

Notice that I am not sharing a laundry list of the loudspeakers at my house...

I do get Polks the old fashioned way, though - we grow 'em...

LOL! That's awesome!

That's cool that other people feel the same as I was thinking a few weeks ago with just ordering up a pair of LSi25s cause I've always wanted a set and have no where currently to use them.

eclypse

George Grand wrote: »

AR 4x (Still in boxes, I don’t think they’ve ever been used)
AR 5
AR 9
AR 9LSI (headed to my bud Ray in Brooklyn)
AR 28
AR 216PS
AR 302
AR 338
ADC 210
Allison Acoustics Model 6
Roy Allison Labs “Mini-Monitor”
B&W CC3 (center channel spkr)
B&W “Rock Solids”
BIC V52s
Bose 100 (three pieces, one shielded)
Bose 101
Bose 2.2
Bose 201 Series II
Bose 201 Series III
Bose 201 Series IV
Bose Acoustimass 3 Powered Sub/Sat System (sub only)
Boston Acoustics CR6
Boston Acoustics HD8
Carver Amazing Platinum Mk.IV
Celestion CS135 Passive sub
Definitive Technology Powered Sub
Design Acoustics PS8C
Dynaco A-25 (two pair)
Electro-Voice “Marquis”
Fried Q3
Heathkit AS18
Heathkit
Infinity Reference 2002.2
Jamo 100 (Center Channel)
Jamo Compact 90
JBL 4411 (one only)
JBL E20
JBL P10
JBL P20
KEF Chorale
Klipsch KM2
Klipsch KM-CC (Center Channel)
Lafayette Radio Electronics “Pip Speaks”
Parasound BPI450 Passive Sub
Pinnacle Powered Sub
Polk Monitor 5 Jr.
Polk RT-3
Polk Sub
RCA Minimus 7 (ported Min 7 knock-offs, Radio Shack catalogue # 40-5001)
Realistic/Optimus Minimus 7 (maybe ten pair incl’. one wood pair, and a few PRO 7 also)
Realistic/Optimus Minimus 77
Speakerlab One
Yamaha YST-SW010 Powered Sub
Yamaha YST-SW100 Powered Sub
Yamaha Mini Spkrs

Ya just gota imagine how much money you could have if ya sold all those off for more cool audio equipment!

eclypse

ZLTFUL wrote: »

I can't give you any advice as I currently have the following in my house:

2x LSi25
4x LSi15
2x LSiC
2x LSiFX
2x RTA15TL
2x RT/FX
2x Monitor 70 SII
2x Monitor 30 SII
1x CS1
2x Klipsch Synergy Sub10
1x DSW MicroPro2000

Should add if you have a guest room as it would be awesome to visit for a weekend!

eclypse

Ya know this thread sucks without pics..

Heres my tiny stash waitin on a new house for future basement setup.

Let me add theres no storage space in our condo!

boston1450

George's collection..i would love to see that collection of fine speakers very nice

boston1450

eclypse wrote: »

Ya just gota imagine how much money you could have if ya sold all those off for more cool audio equipment!

..sometimes its not about the money heck id be happy with the first ones. Lol

gudnoyez

Nothing wrong with having a couple pair of speakers

RTIA5's
RTIA3's
Csia4
Cs10
T15's
SDA CRS+'s 2 pair
SDA2B's
PSW111
That's just the Polks
Acoustic Research AR58's
Acoustic Research AR18's
Klipsch Synergy B2's
Bose 301's III
Bose 301's V
Cerwin Vegas VS10's
some Yamahas 3 pair

cnh

There is another question to be asked here. What would you move out and for what?

I'd like to get my hands, I mean "ears" on some:

Allison
Bozak
Cizek
Altec....and would move some things above for that. Obviously I favor two way classics a lot because they're easy to rotate in and out and store. But many of the above are pretty big boys.

I've already heard some ARs including the AR9s which are really "something" special!

cnh