I recently dropped some money on a nice lampizator dac, absolare integrated amp, and some good cables, having first spent big money on the LS5/5s earlier this year. The LS5/5s are like a giant clear window into the rest of the system. You’ll enjoy them with merely very good gear like I did for a while, but they are almost overwhelmingly invisible and real with a clean very powerful signal in a good room. Truly full-range and very ‘alive’ without fatigue. No second guessing.
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@echoz hard questions are absolutely allowed, and welcome... though convenient and good answers may be hard to come by the following review may help a bit... as i mentioned earlier, the modern iteration of the spendor sp100 is the closest analog to the ls5/5 by graham, minus the vertical face slots... (i currently have the prior gen sp100 r2 and i had the mon 40.1 in the past, i would say this review is reasonably on target) http://highfidelity.pl/@main-1106&lang=en |
I listened to the Spendor Classic 100 in an excellent dealer's system (in the UK) and know the 40.2's well. This is not a direct orange-to-orange comparison, because the 40.2's were followed by the Anniversary and now the 40.3XD. I found the Spendor's slightly more muscular and vigorous, but would have been more than happy to own them. Same afternoon compared with Spendor D series and for me the Classic's were head and shoulders better. Like I said, no experience of Graham, more's the pity. |
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