What's the speaker that "started it all"?

Serendipity

Was at my uncle's house years ago and heard his setup. He had mission bookshelves with a Denon AVR. Have been hooked on audio ever since.

So what's the speaker that got you into this hobby?

jakelm

Stacked Polk Monitor 7a's.

venomclan

A friend of mine had some DCM Timeframes and she was into seperates. I did not know about seperates at the time so I first bought an AVR and some Polk RT16's. They are both long gone but the hobby continues.
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jakelm

The 7a's were driven by a 1976 Infinity DSP switching amp with matching pre/amp.

george daniel

AR 3a's,,driven by a mac

ben62670

Some solid little infinity's. Then I bought some Polk woofers to replace the infinity woofers. Then I said damn these sound good, so I bought some monitor 4.6's, more monitor 4.6's, and then 5's, and then RTA15TL's, and then SDA2's, and then SDA2a's, and then I built some early efforts to copy big SDA's, and now home built SDA-SRS's, and finally my monster SDA's are in construction. Then I will need to build a center channel. I hope I am done for a while.

del44

I guess it would have to be My Kenwood 888D's. Got them in 1977, and they still sound great. Driven by Pioneer Spec-1 Spec-4.

Bill Ayotte

It was a set of Tannoy PBM-8s, ran by a Carver C-4000 and a M400t....I Actually own everything listed above now, except for the C-4000....I used a C-1 instead...

George Grand

AR-3a's driven by the AR Integrated Amp in 1968.

This was SO FAR beyond anything I had ever heard before.

dudeinaroom

PYLE 15's. Yup, I said it. I started off as a basshead in the late '80s(I was 10, give me a break.) From there it was a ton of lower mid-fi stuff, mostly car audio hooked up in the bedroom running off a car battery and charger. Then the vega's hit the scene around '92 when I was DJing with a couple friends. My first ear on a set Infintys was around the same time I started the DJ gig. The Infinitys sounded real nice, but just didn't put out the bass the Cerwin Vegas did. Now the speakers that got me into real sound quality is the set of SDA 2s that are in my living room. They are going no where, they are here to stay (unless I get really desperate for money.) Now I just have to find 5-7 more polks for the HT, and move the SDAs into a proper 2ch rig.

avguytx

Klipschorns at Custom Audio in Little Rock, AR back in 1979. I was 13 at the time and was blown away at their size and the volume they had for being ran off of a 10wpc Yamaha amp (I think it was). Of course, I've changed since then.....

lanion

Playing around with some $80 computer speakers combined with a NuReality surround simulator and TV speakers (the fiddling) when I was 10... then a Bose Lifestyle system and the realization that it really wasn't very good when I was 14 (the horrible port noise / bass module resonanting buzz louder than the actual bass pushed me over the edge), and that there were far better things out there (Dad bought Kef reference speakers and McIntosh gear some years later).

Dennis Gardner

Frazier Mark VIIs, Allison Ones, and JBL Century L100s powered by Marantz, all within the first year of my audio journey.

halo

Polk Audio R30's. Yep, the baseline Polk knocked the snot out of everything that came before it (Infinity, JBL, Pioneer, Sony, Cerwin Vega, Bose, Jensen, Realistic) - guess that wasn't that hard for the R30's to do considering the competition but they did open my ears.

steveinaz

Quadraphonic (don't know what the model was). My then best friend Jon Stratmann was my first introduction to hi-fi. He had a Harmon/Kardon receiver, a pioneer flat-laying cassette deck, a Dual turntable, and a pair of Quadraphonic speakers. He was 12, and yes, his parents were wealthy. I was in awe.........

Deadof_knight

I heard my buddies polk 11Ts with the sda cable man I fell in love with them now Ive got the beasts that we use to dream about having. If you can't conquer the world BUY it !

hearingimpared

RTR 300Ds and RTR 600Ds got me a serious start and I had a very old pair of Magies. My buddy still has the 300Ds and the Magies as a matter of fact he is going to bring both sets over to see how they are working and sounding these days. From what I understand the Maggies still have brown on them from the cig smoke it attracted back then. Here's a pic of the 600Ds.

After that it was the first Polk SDA/SRSs.

Fireman32

For me it was ohskigods RTA12b's which are now mine that got me hooked. I hope to own a pair of SDA's and the AR9's

JimBRICK

this is what got me into home theater. I went t a local hifi shop that was closing and purchased these new in the box





mission m2s. and a panasonic reciever. I didnt know anything about home theater but these sounded awesome and still do. It's now my wifes system in the regular livingroom.

speakers say
Recommended amp power (watts): Satellites: 35-100
Subwoofer: 100 watt amplifier built in
Sensitivity (dB): Satellites: 86
Nominal impedance (ohms): Satellites: 8
Magnetically shielded? Yes
W x H x D (mm): Satellites: 130 x 215 x 190
Subwoofer: 485 x 400 x 335
Weight (kg): Satellites: 2
Subwoofer: 15
Frequency response (Hz): Overall system: 38 - 20,000
Biwireable? No
Connections: Subwoofer has stereo LFE low level input and high (speaker) level in and outputs
Drivers: Satellites:
LF: 100mm (4") alu-polycone driver
HF: 26mm (1") fabric dome with neodymium magnet and ferrofluid cooling
Centre:
LF: 2 x 100mm (4") alu-polycone driver
HF: 26mm (1") fabric dome with neodymium magnet and ferrofluid cooling
Subwoofer:
200mm (8") Alu-polycone driver
Supplied accessories: 3 x 3.5 metre and 2 x 10 metre runs supplied
Bass port? Satellites: Sealed cabinets (2 way design)
Subwoofer: Reflex loaded
Finish: Metallic grey/silver ("anthracite/silver")
Extra: Phase reverse, variable crossover frequency and power switch functions on subwoofer

MillerLiteScott

Dad's KLH 5's

cstpeter

LSi9 showed me the light.

ohskigod

I was an audio nut since a kid. the first speaker I heard that openned my eyes to the difference between good audio, and great audio, was the RTA 12B. a friend of mine's dad owned them many moons ago.

fast forward to about 5-6 years ago, when a pair came up relativly local sale for a benji on ebay, I made the road trip to get them, my audio upgrades went on a slow and steady tear from there.

yes, these are the 12's that currently reside at the apartamente de fireman32, so I still get to hear them from time to time. there's something about that peerless tweet I just love

wingnut4772

It all started with a pair of open box Polk RTI 100s.

ohskigod

I have to list hearing "the Truth" at Casa Grand as another eye opening experience. Told me that I still had a road to travel for audio.

shack

AR-4x cirica 1970...

kalgiers

I'm a newbie, I sorta fell into all this by accident. I got hooked on a pair of Lsi9's we have in a demo room here, I don't recall what was driving them @ the time but was probably a HK receiver. Went on to get a pair of LSi's for myself and it was the beginings of a healthy addiction.

heiney9

A friends EPI towers run on silver faced Marantz seperates. I was blown away when he bought the very first CD player (the name escapes me, Sony perhaps) It was a vertical loader. You loaded the cd like you would load a cassette tape. :cool:

H9

bikezappa

George Grand wrote: »

AR-3a's driven by the AR Integrated Amp in 1968.

This was SO FAR beyond anything I had ever heard before.

From the old men department.

Ar-2ax and Ar amp similar

miner

JBL Century L-100 in 1976. That is the speaker model used in the famous Maxell poster of the guy sitting in the chair getting 'blown away' by the music.

Face

Some old Cerwin Vega full ranges with 15" woofers. Everyone I grew up with who was in audio wanted them at some point.

skipf

AR 2ax driven by a Marantz 1060 integrated, Dual 1229 turntable.