Has anyone listened to Legacy speakers?

It seems logical that the quality of the construction improved when Bill sold some of the interest in the company to outside interests. Hopefully, there was some capital influx that paid dividends in R&D, machinery(CAM) and QA/build. I don't know who those people are, I didn't ask when I met him. I know that the electronics are made by Coda(straight out of Duddleston's mouth), so I would not be surprised if they had some ownership in the company. He made a lot of statements. Many of which would get him into a major disagreement on this site. I still cannot get over the upper mids/treble(especially treble) of Legacy speakers. I do know how they sound currently, as I attended their Philadelphia showing(Valley Forge Convention Center) on April 21st. As I took my girlfriend, I will defer to her comments on their speakers(women always seem to sum up things better than us - they can see the forest through the trees). "Dynamic, and able to play very loudly without strain. But, very, very irritating". I will simply say it is way past time they upgraded their tweeters. If they want to proudly list the companies they use in their ad copy(Eton, Seas, Focal, Solen, etc.), how about using at least a Vifa D26 tweeter? I found a version of it in a $129 Goky(Gold Sky) speaker my dealer is selling for $79 this month. It had a most pleasing sound. It did get compressed if you played it very loudly, but $79? I have seen a lot of $1000+ speakers that behave no differently. Now, that is audio on a budget.

Yes,owned the Focus. They were good, but not good enough to replace my Apogee Mini Grands. So i sold them. Mike

Yes I owned Focus they were just OK Replaced them with Hales T8's Huge improvement

I believe the Hale Transcendence 8 lists for $9790, almost twice the Focus. Kind of like saying: yeah, I owned a Toyota Camry. It was OK. Replaced with a BMW 745i, huge improvement!

A few years back I had the opportunity to hear the Legacy's in Casselberry Florida (Bob Howard). Unfortunately the set-up was less than ideal. Low ceiling several columns and less than ideal positioning. I listened to both the Classics which I had read so much about for all these years and the Focus. He didn't have the Whispers there but at his home and I wasn't really interested in the Signatures because Bob really didn't seem too interested.

The Classics seemed ok but in that room how can you know. Imagine columns between the speakers and the listening position. What I was struck by and what Dds hifi noted was the midrange clarity on the Focus. Here you have this big system with what is it 6 or 7 drivers delivering very delicate subtle midrange clarity, very nice. Of course Bob had to crank it up so I could feel the bass but I got lost in the boom. He should have asked me first, I wasn't impressed. Maybe in a bigger room it might be ok. The Focus, a very nice midrange and that was my lasting impression.