At the Hardy Museum of Audiophelia
Our motto:
Don't Let This Happen to YOU.
Actually, in seriousness:
The
Polk Monitor Series Model 7A I bought in 1978 were "daily drivers" until 1997 (and are still here and still are hard to beat for their original price, at least).
They were slowly but surely replaced by a pair of 1974-vintage
Klipsch Cornwalls (yes... I know...
) that I had very much a love-hate relationship with. I did, in full and complete disclosure, sell those after acquiring a (far superior, to my taste) pair of "A" version (16 ohm)
Altec Valencias.
In the early 2000s, I finally had a pair of cabinets built for a pair of
Altec 604E Duplexes and Mastering Labs XOs I had acquired, at which point the Valencias became redundant.
I did, actually, ultimately sell the Valencias, not because I didn't still like them
a lot, but rather because:
1) they deserved to be in regular use (which they are, to this day, in the hands of the fellow I sold them to, after he'd had them on a long-term loan).
2) I had acquired, inexpensively, a pair of quite similar
Altec Santiagos (which are actually better balanced tonally, especially in terms of LF extension, but at the expense of a bit of sensitivity).
The Santiagos serve primarily as
speaker stands nowadays.
After some not-entirely-minor modifications
, the aforementioned pair of cabinets, outfitted with
Altec 515B woofers, 802D treble drivers on EMILAR EH-500 horns (with EMILAR throat adaptors), and B&C DE35 "super"tweeters (
super is relative) serve as the serious loudspeakers in the house to date, and most likely in perpetuity. The changes were made
only to improve treble dispersion from the Duplexes, which were a bit limited in that regard.
The rest here are all, more or less, for playing around with.
