Jerry's Speaker Odyssey

[jandl100]

Thought I'd start a dedicated thread for showing my speaker journey over the last few years (I change the things a LOT!) - or at least the speakers I have owned since I first bought a digital camera! Some of these photos are in the original all-folks-in-1 thread, but it's kind of useful to separate them out into my own thread here. Lots of new photos anyway.

I'll add some comments about my views on each speaker as I go through.

Starting off in Spain (I lived there for 2 years .. long story ...) with my Avantgarde Unos - fabulous speakers, dynamic as hell, oodles of clarity and presence, and (to my ears) quite untroubled by horn colourations.



Moved back to Blighty, and the Unos were just too big for my new listening room - I'd had the Unos for an astonishing 5 years anyway, so fancied a change ..... I played around with some small speakers (Rogers LS3/5a and Acoustic Energy AE1) but couldn't really settle down with them. Simply not enough 'scale" to the music.
I bought an ex-dem pair of Audiostatic DCI Wings - full range Dutch stats ... ah, that was more like it!



These kept me happy for getting on for a year, but eventually the early bass roll-off of the things (impossible to integrate with a sub - I tried!) got me venturing forth once more.
A pair of ex-dem Kharma Ceramique 3 speakers attracted my attention ...



Wow - these were stunning - open, detailed and just plain musically wonderful. They kept me happy for 2 years.

But the wonderlust bug bit again, and I wandered off in a completely different direction ..... to vintage JBL L110 monitors Wow - talk about a change of pace! - I loved these little babies ...



... for a while. I started being unfaithful after a few months, trying various things (while still keeping the JBLs of course ).

QLN Sigs (rolled off top end - played with these for less than a day!)


Klipsch Heresy (too coloured - sold them after a week)


Magneplanar smga (not enough rez, and vague imaging. Interesting though - I played around with them for a couple of weeks before giving up.)


Finally kind of settled on a pair of Epos ES30 for a couple of months


But got a bit bored with them. A pair of Dali Skyline 1000 ribbon hybrids turned up on eBay - I'd heard their bigger brothers at a Show a couple of years earlier and had been mucho impressed. So, here they are chez-Jerry That tall (30 inch!) ribbon tweeter is a lulu! Open baffle bass and mids as well - so a very interesting and unusual design.



I kept these for about 8 months before my attention began to wander again!

I tried some Apogee Centaur Minors, but found them too bass shy ...


Then along came my current faves, Thiel CS2.3. Wow - Jerry is in love again. Open, fast, uncoloured - electrostat-sound for folks who can't live with the limitations of stats! That's me!


I've had these for about 6 months now ... I do love them, but just recently my attention has started to wander again!
Hence the Yammie NS1000M you can see sharing the photo with the Thiels. Nope they didn't stay long - the Thiels hammered them!

Then some Celef PE1 popped in - nice, but too similar to some Proac Response2 I had owned a long time back - I like to investigate different sounds! Their new owner loves them, though - and quite right too, a mighty fine speaker.


And some JBL TiK2 standmounts ... pretty, but definitely a more rock-focussed sound than I want - but they have found a very happy home in a 2nd systenm I have created for them in my conservatory.


And some Rogers Export Monitors (currently up for sale ). A traditional BBC Monitor sound - frequency response is flat, completely flat as measured with my Behringer digi equaliser - astonishing! Great, classic speakers - but not quite right for me.


I'm currently playing with stacked Rega Juras - as can be seen in another thread on the forum.



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So the Speaker Saga continues. A huge amount of fun.