The First set of speakers I bought was these with my First Job in Highschool.
After about 25 years? One of the woofers started buzzing, so I took it out of service. Surprising thing is? Both the Piezo and the Cone tweeter stopped working LONG ago.
To get more Bass out of them, I put them in these Stupid end tables (The Hexagon kind) and it REALLY increased the bass output. Like by A LOT.
The REciver? I think it was a YORX or something. Not even sure where I picked it up from. Think it was just something I picked up walking home one day that someone was just giving away at the end of the Driveway.
The only thing I really listened to back then was the RADIO.
My next step was Home theater, and that was a TEAC AVR I picked up at some Liquidator store in Bremerton.
Speakers were all Polk audio if I can remember. Then Some Bose 201's? KLH Subwoofer. Then a Sony Subwoofer added, and then I think some Sony Bookshelf speakers. None was to impressive.
for home audio everything that I purchase really wasn't all that impressive for me in fact I always wanted to get a set of Martin Logan's and then when I listen to them they just weren't for me that was the first time I was serious about actually getting some real speakers but after auditioning them at the Magnolia Hi-Fi they just did not meet my expectations.
the only speakers I've ever truly been in love with are the magnepans which I purchased approximately 3 years ago and then my second set after that. I have lots of speakers but I just kind of purchased them or manage to come around them on a lark.
my only real project in the future is to build some MASSIVE line array with all these dynaudio speakers I have laying around which I have I think about Fourteen 10 inch woofers , Four 5.25 inch woofers, Ten Dome Midranges with three working Dynaudio tweeters. I plan to get Joeseph Peelon in Denmark to make me some Large Ribbon tweeters that are about 6 feet high. I have a design I want to pitch to him that would take care of the beam pattern and limited dispersion. (I hope) it's something I have planned for when my son either goes to college or the military.
I did build my own subwoofer back in Highschool with these 8 inch version of these that I quickly burnt out.
I made an Isobaric version of a tube subwoofer out of some round cardboard tubes I got when helping out my Parents at Kyocera. I used a glue gun and Sparkly Glue sticks to put it together and an Amp I had found while walking home that one channel did not work. It was a Rare Sansui. I remember there being Resistors on the caps.
I was thinking this was a bad thing and took them off and then the amp sort of... Went up in smoke. So did my Thump Speakers.
I was such a fool to throw that thing away. It had VU meters and everything.