kohill Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 My first good speakers were a pair of Boston Acoustics A-70's that I got in the early 80's. My brother still has them and they still sound good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prodj101 Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 I'm not sure what you consider good, but my first "real" speakers were some cheap sony 150$ a pair things. at the time I thought they were great. of course now I'd say my RF-5's were my first pair of "real" speakers, but w/e. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 In high school I had a pair of Jensen 3 way speakers. The big ones with either 15 or 16 or maybe even 18 inch woofers. I sold them to a friend when I bought my cornwalls and he still has them. No comparison to the corns of course. The jensens are hornless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 That's easy...My first truely good loudspeakers were my JBL L112 Century II 3-way monitors. Bought 'em new in 1983 in Stuttgart, Germany of all places. Used them faithfully for years, and then gave them to my younger brother in 1997 when I purchased my second truely good loudspeakers (Magnepan MGLR1 planars). My brother still uses my JBL's as a center channel for his HT system (wired in parallel to his Yamaha AV receiver. He's also using my Maggies for the mains to the same system now that I have my Cornwalls...believe it or not, the Maggies and the JBL's blend very well together; it's uncanny)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnBob Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 My first decent speakers (not counting the Karlson couplers with the Oxford drivers, which hardly anybody would) were Bozak B-301s. Then I bought a pair of Altec Valencias which had been in a fire. Fixed them up and sold them to pay for my Cornwalls. It's been close to thirty years now, and it's still one of the best purchases I've ever made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynnm Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 My first really good speaker was a single homebrew monaural corner horn with a 12" Jensen coupled to a midrange and a tweeter. Sold it for dick all while in university because my wife and kid and I needed food ! Trust me Kraft Dinner's Ready ! can actually sound better than Beethoven's Fifth at times . My first decent stereo pair were Dynaco A25's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkrop Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Klipsch KG-4's almost 20 years ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 I thought my Yamaha NS-5's were good when I got them in '78. I used those until I got KG4's 20 years later, which has led to a flury of speaker purchases including KSP-400's, Cornwalls, Pioneer HPM-100's. Sansui SP-L700's and various others. It's sick, really. fini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invidiosulus Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Mine were my JBL L46's Price, $0.00 Great speakers, I love em to death. I have em as my computer speakers. Peace, Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMcGoo Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 The first set of really great speakers that I listened to was a set of Khorns owned by a friend. They got me hooked on Klipsch; nothing sells Klipsch like Khorns. My first good speakers were Klipsch CF-2s; now it is a Reference 7 system with RSW-15 sub. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PYRO Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 Klipsch Hersey II's purchased in 1987 - Stuttgart, Germany. Sold in 1993, what a mistake! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenratboy Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 I will say my JBL's (they were reviewed by a few audio magizines (as in paper and ink and on the newsstand) and were summed up as mini NHT 3.3's - thats a GOOD thing), but I will soon get some Klipsch's, so those will definetly be it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 Had some small speaker that had 8" drivers, but can't remember the name. So my first good ones were JBL 4311 ( 1972 $329 each). Basically the studio version of the L100. Look very similar to Tidwell's L112, but the tweeter is a paper cone without the screen over them. The good news is that I still have them, and they still sound great. Marvel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audible Nectar Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 The first good pair of speakers I owned were Cornwalls. I had several other models prior to those, including a pair of Advents and Peavey towers. They were just "stop gap speakers" to use until I finally got the Cornwalls. Cornwall or Chorus = minimum acceptable standard in a full range main speaker, at least to these ears. I was never really happy with anything else lower in the Klipsch line. Outside of Klipsch, then I look to vintage JBL and Altec. There's not much else commercially available that interests me. I spent 20 years looking at many other brands and models, in all different price ranges - and never saw or heard anything else that really pleased me. Even the "audiophile" megabux speakers from other companies (B&W, M-L, Magnepan, etc) where price was no object did not impress, having heard the Heritage Klipsch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckears Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 "Cornwall or Chorus = minimum acceptable standard in a full range main speaker, at least to these ears." Hmmm, ever hear the Forte? Not quite as boomy as the Chorus; slightly more accurate to these ears; in fact, one of the most accurate speakers I've ever heard. To stay on topic, the first pair of speakers I owned was Boston Acoustics A60's (circa 1984)... only $200/pr, but I considered them to be very acceptable. The second pair of speakers I owned was the Klipsch Forte (1988), and they are still entertaining and delighting me, and are the pillars of my home theater set-up. I've heard Martin-Logan's and Paradigms recently; the Logans produced a very nice soundstage and refined sound, but seemed to lack the "punch" the Forte's have made me expect. The Paradigms were way too "dark" to my ears, seemed somewhat muddy in sound execution. It could have been the HT room they were set up in; lots of heavy curtains. I sure wasn't sold on their performance that day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 My first great speaker was JBL PARAGON I bought the plans from JBL & built them. Took 5 months. With in one year I bought Klipschorns & that is now my main system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Garrison Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 Electrovoice Interface A purchased sometime circa, uh, 1975? Anybody remember them? Passive bass radiator with enormous phallic looking mass loading device (cylinder like 8 inches long and 2 inches wide) sticking out from center of cone. Drove them with a Nikko receiver rated at "300 watts" per channel. Receiver was the size of a smaller Samsonite steamer trunk. Ah, those were the days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike82 Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 1974- I bought a pair of Braun L710 monitors (2- 7" woofers, 2" midrange, 1" tweeter). The Brauns replaced a pair of decent EPI 150. The Brauns were SWEEETTT! I kept them for several years until replacng them with Spendor 1/2. Sadly, ADS took over the US distribution and the apparently decided to import only budget stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike82 Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 1974- I bought a pair of Braun L710 monitors (2- 7" woofers, 2" midrange, 1" tweeter). The Brauns replaced a pair of decent EPI 150. The Brauns were SWEEETTT! I kept them for several years until replacng them with Spendor 1/2. Sadly, ADS took over the US distribution and the apparently decided to import only budget stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovemyhorns Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 My first higher dollar speakers, not necessarily good, were Bournagolis (sp? help me out here if anybody knows what I am talking about), they were panel speakers made of some sort of styrofoam and had little hammers that caused the foam to resonate at the various frequencies, quite bizarre actually. They imaged well and sounded great at low volumes. I had them for about a month before I broke them... I traded them in on my Khorns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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