No love for Legacy Audio

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.

@mikekollar agree with Mike, I live just north of LA and was in the market for a new system but had around a 10 to 12k budget for speakers and about another 5 to 8k for electronics. I spent several weeks auditioning multiple speakers with names you would all be familiar with and before I auditioned with legacy speakers I was deeply disappointed and even depressed at what I had to pay to get realistic sound pressure levels and bass that can slam. I’m a drummer and listen to mainly instrumental prog fusion and electronic and listening to speakers between 10 and 25k left me realizing I would need to invest in sub woofers and significant amplification to get the sounds where I needed it to be. My last stop was at a local Legacy dealer and when I first started the audition we played the signature SEs and I said those won’t do, please move to the Focus XDs and that was every thing I had been looking for without having to invest in electronics or sub woofers. I’m blown away at how these speaks can be driven at all volume levels and produce amazing sound pressure levels while presenting warm accurate sound stage and instrument reproduction. I’m in love with my system, Focus XDs with Wavlet 2 and MAC mini with Roon 

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Bill Dudleson was making a commit on one of his podcasts that when he first released the Signatures he gave them to a buddy that owned a recording studio. After a month or so Bill was talking to him and ask about the speakers. He was told "Their GREAT. But we need about 10 more db. for our usage". That is when Bill got to work designing the Focus SE's. What you say makes perfect sense. And I love mine !