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mindhead1
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Dec 15, 2018
I haven’t owned many sets of speakers in my lifetime. What I have owned I have kept for a long time. My first set of real speakers were a set of Polk bookshelf speakers I bought from a frat brother in college with gambling debts. I had those speakers for about 10 years and used a Sony and Onkyo receiver with them. They sounded great. I donated them to goodwill a few years ago as they were just sitting unused in storage. Hopefully, someone is enjoying them today.
I replaced those speakers with a set of Polk Monitor 50 towers about 15 years ago (shit I’m getting old). These speakers were used with Onkyo and Yamaha receivers and have been connected to a Sonos Connect:Amp for the past 7 years or so. To my ear they sound phenomenal and I can’t really justify investing in anything else for living room music listening purposes.
I had an Altec Lansing ATP-3 2.1 computer speaker setup at my desk for many years (close to 10)that sounded great. I would probably still be rocking them if they hadn’t died. The subwoofer connection broke and the speaker connections were snorting on me.
At my desk now (last 6-7 years) I have a pair of Audyssey LES (https://www.crutchfield.com/p_807LESMS/Audyssey-Lower-East-Side-Media-Speakers.html) powered speakers that are very good especially when music is fed from a DAC. The speakers have tight controlled bass with balanced mids and highs. Prior to my current desk setup with an Aune X1S/X7S stack I fed the speakers from an AudioEngine D1. Both dacs did wonders for the depth, clarity and seperation I get from the speakers. I’m enjoying them now as I write this. These speakers really sound good. It’s unfortunate they are no longer made.
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