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. 

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I listened to them at their listening room a few years back. They were just not my cup of tea. I was listening to modded Magnepan 1.7s, evolved to modded Revel F208s and am now in heaven with Spatial X5s.

Barret over at Spec of Tech loves his Focus SEs but watching his take on their Audio Studio bookshelf speaker will blow your mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-VcecnFa40

I owned the Legacy SEs for a few years. I loved the sound of the tweeter. It was very alive and natural. Gradually, I fell out of love. With acoustic music the imaging and center fill were just off and I couldn’t correct it with repositioning. I discovered this problem when my second cheaper system sounded way better with a new dac. In comparison the Legacies just could not deliver the realistic imaging and palpability from that better new dac that the mor modest system did.The bass also sounded wrong. It may have partly been a room issue, but I couldn’t fix it. I replaced them with kef references 1s.

Love my Legacy Sig SEs. with the Lumin T2 and Pass 250.8....when i replace my Marantz 8802a with a Pass xp22  i'll be done (Ha). i like them so much i would buy them again.....

 

I owned Legacy Classics about 6-7 years ago and sold them to 'upgrade'. Big mistake! I think the Legacy speakers are great sounding, especially for the price. You don't see them ''used' very often as their owners tend to keep them. Just fine sounding speakers in my opinion.