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What is your biggest regret involving speakers?

In the 1970's and working for three different Audiophile Stores that I didn't buy at least one pair of every speakers that we sold. At that time we could direct purchase speakers for 50% of retail price.
 
I can't say I have any regrets yet. I have bought and sold (most after repair) many speakers, but enjoyed them when they were here. I have sold on Ditton 25, Heresy 1, Dynaco 25, Burhoe Red and Blue, Genesis +1, RTR EXP-8, PSB Passif 1 and Amazing Alpha, Paradigm 3se, 5se, 7,7s, 7se, 11se MK II, 9 v7, Energy 22 Reference, Polk RTi10, many Pioneer and Sony, KLH 17 and on, and on. The crunch may come now as I prepare to sell my JBL L40 as they have been replaced by a pair of Mirage 750. Many more have passed through, but I am not done discovering. Plus, I still have my home-built speakers from circa 1975, double-layer HD particle board, glued and screwed, cabinets by my uncle, three-way, stuffed with Philips drivers and cross-overs, bought from Gladstone Electronics on Avenue Rd. in Toronto. And they still rock!
 
There is no way I could have gone where I went and done what I did, while carting around a pair of Klipschorn copies that I built at age 19.

So I can't regret selling them. But I do wish that I had them now. Oh, well.
 
I used to repair speakers for a guy who would resell them. These are JBL Lancers which I re-foamed and probably should have kept. Sounded a lot better than most of the ones I worked on.

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Selling my pair of AR-2ax.
Selling my pair of AR-5.
Selling my pair of Polk SDA-SRS 2.3 speakers.
Selling my JBL L100s.
 
sqlsavior said:
There is no way I could have gone where I went and done what I did, while carting around a pair of Klipschorn copies that I built at age 19.

So I can't regret selling them. But I do wish that I had them now. Oh, well.
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Yup, did the same thing but still wish I had my Altec 846b’s
 
Leaving my KLH1 with the computer at my ex wife's house as we were getting a divorce suddenly they seemed to disappear the only thing I left the house with was my clothes and a dish rag. I did manage to save my two racks of Technics pro Equipment. No. 2 loss a pair of top of the line Polk speakers signed by Mathew Polk in original boxes with packing for 200 bucks.
 
No big regret but I wished I had followed thru...plan was to make OLA into a 3 way by using the Philips 5060 ad as a midrange like Dahlquist DQ-10/ Infinity Qb...and see if it would compete with the bigger $ competition.
 
toddalin said:
My biggest regret is having the mass rings put into my JBL woofers when I had them (previously 2205s) reconed as AlNiCo 2235s. If I did it again, I would have had them left off (ala 2234), but it is now too expensive to have the cones changed if originals are even available.
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Can i ask you how it changed the sound for you?, i have the same drivers, 2235H reconed 2205 (AlNiCo) and i did put the rings myself (reconed myself).
 
A few decades ago I had a pair of Optimus 10's that I tossed the drivers of when the foams rotted out. At the time I had no idea that it wasn't a terminal condition. Had I known then what I know now I would have re-foamed them and eventually replaced the cone tweeters with a really nice pair of dome tweeters and spiffed up those nice walnut veneer cabs. I saw a pair on Ebay last December and almost bit but I'm all speaker'd up :(
 
turboyam said:
Can i ask you how it changed the sound for you?, i have the same drivers, 2235H reconed 2205 (AlNiCo) and i did put the rings myself (reconed myself).
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Had 130As before. 2235s sound dull and lifeless comparatively because they are tubby and lack in the lower midrange. Leaving the rings out would have kept some of this "liveliness" as it allows the cone to respond more quickly.
 
Regret.... destroying a pair of KLH 6 to reuse the cabs. I bought the used sixes circa 1974/75 in high school. Used them through college. Ripped them apart around '85 to refurb with a kit from McGee Radio. Still hurts 35 years later. :(
 
#1 Letting go of my ADS L980. I quintupled my money but have regretted it since it rolled out the door. Im an idiot
#2 Not buying a set of IMF RSPM IV for $200. Im an idiot v 2.0
 
Selling my beautiful Walnut AR3a s in '74 so I could buy 4 used Large Advents. Well maybe that was a good idea! The advents' surrounds have been replaced 3 or 4 times since '74 but overall are still going strong (oh, I replaced one tweeter since). Still wish I had the AR3a set though ...
 
My biggest regret? Buying a pair of cheap Fisher floorstanders at a thrift for $50 in college after my speakers went “missing” on move-in day, when the same shop had a pair of Altec Boleros for $150.

Hurts a little bit, in retrospect. Fishers are long-gone, serving someone else very happily, but I’d probably still have the Altecs and a lot of saved money because I wouldn’t have gotten on the upgrade/flip treadmill.
 
I traded a pair of AR 2AX speakers for a crappy tube hybrid Crate guitar amp that sounded like a** and didn't last two years in the early 90s. What was I thinking! Though I was only in high school so probably wasn't. Lol
 
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