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How Long Before You Guys Get The Itch To Replace Your Speakers?

eddantes said:
Replace? WTF? Don't they just accumulate?
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I always sell my old pair to help pay for the new. My used stuff is like-new so they usually sell fairly easily.
 
I'm going to run 2 pair (not at the same time).

1 pair is for fun (dynamics and bass).

2nd pair for late night listening (or when I want to hear the mouse fart in a recording, lol).


I guess it’s time to upgrade when you want your speakers to do more of something, bass, mids, highs, transparency, or whatever.

It can be a never ending journey of speaker swap. And that’s ok, because you have experience and gained memories on various speakers (how you think they sound).
 
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It used to be every few months at a period I was buying often used classics ones, in the last years it got much less but I still enjoy to take out from my basement some and try to optimise them for some days, till I revert back to my current systems.
 
Not really that often, but at an accelerating pace this millenium: new speakers ca. 2005, in 2020 and now in December 2024.
 
Itching? Never. But it might happen that someone starts enjoying to perforate diaphragms, and someone else starts insisting on getting more compact speakers ;-)
 
Not very often. Tannoy 603's in my 20's, because I liked the marble effect on the top & stands. PSB Image T45's in my mid 30's, £180 end of line sale at Peter Tyson. Kept them over 15 years, thought sounded great with a TA2020 based DIY Amp6 I'd built. Then came ASR and some electronics changes (budget, but decent measuring class D). I recently got some F206 on offer for £1,500, I couldn't pass on the deal, as they were £3,999 elsewhere. The F206 will likely see me out now, I couldn't audition them, so trusted the Amir's review and I'm glad I did.
 
Usually when I have the chance for a drastic upgrade.
One 3-way for a similar "more refined" one doesn't cut it for me, it has to really be an upgrade or else the next day you just end up with the same sound as before, only "refined" .

That's the reason I kill the urge for small, silly "updates" with DAC and stuff which the results are never audible or even if it is they don't rock your world.
Only speakers and room do that.

So, yes, it takes sometime, usually 5 years or so.
 
JSmith said:
Yes... :D

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Actually, a friend (and strong technical contributor) mentioned that he once worked in a hi-fi store that had many loudspeaker models on display in a particular room. He said that the acoustics of the room were very beneficial to overall reverberation time (RT)--that he attributed to parasitic damping and re-radiation of the non-driven woofers.

Jim Creek said:
How Long Before You Guys Get The Itch To Replace Your Speakers?
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A long time.

Chris
 
Being a DIYer who take advantage of some used speakers, there's a continual evolution. That said I still listen to a variation of my first DIY attempt which was Dynaudio 21W54s and D28s back in 1982. The foam rotted in the 90s and repairs were 4 times what I paid new so then switched to a cavalcade of prosound devices. Todays variation is the Vifa 21WO39 with SEAS 27TDC in Snell E4 boxes.

The big system in ether JBL 2206\2431 or Eighteen sound 6ND431\Wavcor TW30wa11. The JBL sounds a little better for hard rock the small top box sounds a little better on vocal music. The bass is from AE TS15S. I'm considering building a middle ground speaker with B&C 8s with the Wavecor.
 
I only get the "itch" if I feel something is missing and/or could be improved with a higher quality speaker. Sometimes this sets in very quickly, even if I enjoy the speaker overall. From that perspective, I am currently itch-free.
 
I’ve gone through periods of relative stasis over the years, for instance having a loudspeaker for four or five years, and then buying a lot and playing around with different speakers because I just enjoy it, and then back to stasis (especially since I also have a Home Theatre jones, so sometimes I’m in Home Theatre mode more than two channel).

Currently, I have had my Thiel 2.7s for about eight years and I have zero itch to replace them. I don’t see myself ever selling them.

I’ve had my Joseph audio perspectives for 6 years - zero itch to change.

I also have my Spendor s3/5 speakers for about 24 years, and I still love throwing those into my system.

Finally I still use a pair of Thiel O2 speakers that I’ve been listening to since the early 90s, and I’m never going to part with those either.

For electronics, I’ve used my CJ amps for about 24 years, not changing that.

So I pretty much have honed things down at this point to what I’m not going to part with.
 
I usually buy 1 higher dollar piece of equipment per year (1-to several k), around once per decade its speakers

I usually satisfy audio buying itch with 1 or 2 lower ticket items per year (say a 300$ streamer or similar).



I am on 1 decade period cycle of moving from big equipment to small equipment and then back again. I have made the change 3-4 times in my 35 years in the hobby. My main system recently lost 300ish lbs. it will probably be portly again 2035ish
 
oh, I definitely like playing with loudspeakers.
I've been playing with these, which I built put together* nearly 20 years ago again quite a bit recently.




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* My friend Mike Berg built the cabinets for me. It is not pretty when I butcher wood. :eek: :facepalm:
 
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