No love for Legacy Audio


Hello all. I have been on a few discussions here and read many more. I have not seen many of the posters here talk much about Legacy Audio speakers. I am referring to the Signature SE model and the Focus SE model. I am curious why people don’t seem to like them as much as several other brands that get talked about much more here. What is it you like better about the ones you are consistently raving about. Thank you. 

backdoor

I agree on Legacy's veneering. I was once able compare the finish on a pair of entry level Legacy HD Studio monitors to a $41k pair of speakers I will not name. The Legacy finish was much nicer.

@mikekollar 

I have the Focus XD for eight months now.  They are great speakers  Very live and dynamic sounding.  I owned quite a few speakers in the past and they were all floor standing.  None of them can compete with the XD on dynamics and bass.  Music just sounds live through the XD.  Transient speed is unbelievably fast.

I have only heard the Legacy speakers at Audio shows but it has never been good.

I've heard plenty of highly reviewed product sound bad at shows. Best sound at shows is more often than not the set up skills of the exhibitor much more than the components or system themselves. Just ask Jim Smith, one of the best system set up guys I know.

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It is why i boasted myself here more about my room acoustic homemade than about my gear choices...

People think that reading the user manual of an amplifier is knowledge...

It is so evident that acoustic is the heart of audio not electronic design so good it is... Psycho-acoustics is the blood in the acoustic heart.... The rest is marketing...

And small room acoustics is very different from great hall acoustic... Same science two completely different architecture and installation ...Two specialities ...

 

I’ve heard plenty of highly reviewed product sound bad at shows. Best sound at shows is more often than not the set up skills of the exhibitor much more than the components or system themselves. Just ask Jim Smith, one of the best system set up guys I know.

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