Lula,
I Can’t offer any real insight on either Lawrence monitors other than what 2 dealers told me.Both,Jay Kaufman of audio revelations and Mike Kay of Audio archon both said the mandolin is a little more sweeter and musical than the violin.
Lawrence never gained much interest in America,they didn’t market their speakers much here and they also experienced a bad deal 5 yrs ago at RMAF unfortunately.There’s only 3 dealers left now and Jay is semi retired and shrinking his business down.
As a tidbit,I’ve been told that there has been only 4 sets of the double bass speakers shipped to America,and Offcourse my pair is one of them.
I recently inquired about their bird series but no one has any real information about them and all I got was priceing info.None of the bird series has ever been sold here.
I’m personally not interested in any monitor speaker,I only want larger floor standers.
Good luck with your search,
Kenny.