What were your first "audiophile" speakers and when?

tmallin said:

One of my earliest encounters with "high end" speakers and equipment was also in a Korvette's department store in Watchung, New Jersey, in the mid-1960s when I was a young teenager. My parents would shop and I would hang around the color TVs and then wander over into the "high-end" audio room. They had all the famous brands like AR and KLH.

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puroagave said:

@lloydelee21: at some point i've owned the sl6, sl600, sl600si and sl700 - all fabulous.

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tmallin said:

P.S.: I thought all my speakers were "high end," even if they really weren't. They were what I thought were the best I could afford at the time of any given purchase, given my knowledge of what was available and how different models sounded to me at the time. In order, starting in around 1965, I owned AR-4x, Rectilinear XI, Large Advent (stacked + Microstatic tweeters), DCM Time Windows, Snell Type A Improved, Thiel CS 3 (oops--too bright), B&W 801 Matrix Series 2, Carver Amazing Platinum Mark IV, Cello Strads, Legacy Audio Whispers, Harbeth M40, Gradient 1.3, Gradient 1.5, Harbeth M40.1, Sanders 10C, Gradient Active Revolution, and Stirling Broadcast LS3/6.

Along the way, I also got into vintage speakers and now own or have recently owned, Rectilinear III, AR-3a (three pairs), AR-5 (two pairs), AR-2ax, AR-303a, and AR-4x (back to the beginning again, for my office--what I'm listening to right now), KLH-12, EPI 100, Human 81.

Along my vintage way, I also came across a decent pair of the marvelous original Spendor SP1/2, which are VERY hard to come by these days. But, don't fret, the similar-in-design Stirling LS3/6 is yet better, current, and easily available for not too much money. Great speakers and a great bargain.

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