[cmer]

High end loudspeakers for music/home theatre.

Turns out, speaker tech evolves pretty slowly. I bought a pretty high end set 15 years ago and it’s still miles ahead of most of what’s currently on the market. I don’t expect to change them for another 30 years.

The brand I bought is Monitor Audio. https://www.monitoraudio.com/

[bob1029]

Loudspeakers are one thing that do seem to last forever if you take care of them.

I still have my Polk RTI12s from when I got them on employee discount while working at Circuit City. I had to epoxy the bass reflex port back together on one of them, but otherwise they can still take a ton of power and light up an auditorium.

My top vendors right now would be Emotiva (high-end amps) & Monoprice (gigantic, heavy, cheap loudspeakers).

[lampington]

+1 to that. I picked up a pair of Castle Howard S2s (lovely floor-standing speakers from the 90s) for a few hundred on eBay ten years ago. They're my forever speakers unless I add at least another comma to my net worth.

[jayknight]

I found a pair of decent 20-year-old bookshelf speakers at Goodwill for $15, and got a tiny $30 amplifier to drive then and my humble little home theater setup is way better now.

[andytruett]

Can you share what amp you got?