Your most disappointing purchase or audition?

Trejla,
I have never heard a pair of Acoustic Zen speakers, although I know that they are very polarizing with opinions of their performance swinging both ways.
I went to Legacy headquarters once years ago when the Focus was in its 2nd version, having read glowing reviews, and was also very underwhelmed by the mediocre performance.
I owned the same model of TDL Monitor transmission line speakers twice, and agree that they were special. Not perfect by any means, but great in the way the bass could breathe in a naturally, and pressurize a room without overwhelming it.

+1 Shakeydeal. It's an occupation for some seeking to get insulted.

This also speaks volumes for Agon moderator. From my experience, this is the only site censors for the most benign post.

M 2nd Sony XA7ES...my memory of the 1st one I had made me long for another 3 years after I sold it...either the 2nd one had an issue(not obvious) or my memory had one...still not sure which.

Trelja,
I suppose 2 out of 3 isn't bad.
1. Agree with your take on the merits of paper cones(done properly).Natural is absolutely the right description.
2,My impression of Legacy is the same as yours and Tubegroover.
3. The Acoustic Zen Crescendo made music for certain when I heard it. Anyway I always appreciate your insight and contributions on this site.
Charles,

I heard a pair of Legacy Focus SE a few years back when I was checking out various brands for speakers. I thought they sounded OK, until I stood up from the listening chair and the tweeters disappeared. Sat back down and there they were again. The tiny sweet spot knocked them out of consideration before I even started thinking much about any other qualities. I actually thought their Classic speaker was better, although not big enough for my room.

Re: moderator scrutiny, I've been there for a year now. The comments that I tried to make were admittedly more abrasive than anything Charles said in that other thread (I think I tried to tell someone that he must have come home from third grade early one day and caught his mother having sex on the couch with the speaker for him to hate it so much). I'm frankly surprised that anyone would turn him in for anything he said there. And I would hope the reporting party also turned in the guy who basically said only tin-eared ignorant morons don't like one of the speakers being discussed, but I'm guessing this is a case of whose ox got gored, not a matter of increasing civility in discussions.

There are people who don't like my speakers either. I may not agree with their characterizations of how they sound and may occasionally dispute those characterizations, but in the end I built my system to please ME, not someone on the internet I've never met - or for that matter even my best friends. People are far too quick to assume the victim mantle these days.