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Old 09-28-2013, 07:42 AM
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First "good" pair - 1963 - Electrovoice EV-2 (That's 50 years worth of dust, folks!)

My brother still uses them!

My first pair were HH Scott S-71's (go wide with browser.)




Which I bought new in ~1975 at the age of 17.




The swivel stands were GREAT! as they had mid-tweets arranged in a horizontal line, the response would change when 'rotating.' I rotated those speaks for years.. for every different listening position. It was a fun and interesting aspect of the system.




Sill have them in the lower level waiting for a restoration. Last audition revealed muddled and distorted bass output.


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Old 11-04-2013, 09:29 PM
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LOL, I remember those round plastic speakers! Don't remember how they sounded but they are kinda cool.

My first "good" speakers were Bose 901's with a Pioneer 1010 from our SE Asia PX 1974 or 1975. Rock and roll! Looking back that must have been ear bleeding.
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Old 12-29-2013, 07:49 PM
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These were my first decent speakers. I bought these in 1975 while at MCAS Iwakuni in Japan. They were in the main system until 1983 when they were replaced by the Magnepan MG1.0 IMP which I still have. They moved into the den and I finally sold them in 1988.


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I probably had something before these Marantz HD 66 speakers (not my actual speakers), but it's been too long!

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Old 01-03-2014, 03:34 PM
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These are not the actual ones I had but my first real set of speakers were Pioneer HPM-100 's
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Old 01-03-2014, 06:03 PM
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My first were Advent Loudspeakers. I bought them in 1977.

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Old 03-11-2014, 09:01 PM
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Listening to my Advents in my basement. I just rebuilt the crossovers. They sound surprisingly good. If I close my eyes, I'm back in my college dorm room.



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JBL L100 Century! "The" Rock-N-Roll speaker of the day. Wish I still had them. They had the blue foam grilles and ROCKED the block.
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My first pair of "real" speakers were McIntosh ML-2Cs that I drove with a Denon 140W Integrated Amp. I picked them up in college from a friend of my roommate's dad. In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have bought them as they were heavy and hard to deal with, as well as being major overkill for the size of my living space, but I loved them!

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My first pair of "real" speakers were McIntosh ML-2Cs that I drove with a Denon 140W Integrated Amp. I picked them up in college from a friend of my roommate's dad. In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have bought them as they were heavy and hard to deal with, as well as being major overkill for the size of my living space, but I loved them!


They were really good looking furniture . . . . and probably sounded good too . . . My dad had Bozak speakers that looked very similar (early 1960's)
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