System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live

There's probably a Nobel waiting for someone to show the inverse square law doesn't apply to sound from any source.

@dogberry In a line source when you are close to the speaker the sound you are hearing is coming from right in front of you. As you move further back, more of the driver(s) sound is able to reach your ears, so the sound pressure appears to not fall off as quickly. In fact its seems almost constant, but if you got far enough away (not possible in most rooms) you'd find that is obeying the inverse square law.

Years ago I built an OTL guitar amp that employed four 8" drivers snuggled as close together as possible in a vertical line. This was meant so that the musician wouldn't have to play seemingly quite so loud for the amp to project nicely and it worked quite well for that- you could hear the amp as easily at the front of the stage as you could in the rear of the club.

Dear @mijostyn  : That could be but here my speakers where you can read about. Please do it:

R.

@rauliruegas It might be a good idea to have the suspensions of the drivers renewed. Its hard to imagine drivers that old that are working right unless they are either all paper or use a latex-impregnated cloth surround.

I don't do the envy game, but I would love the L2030s.  Even via YouTube they sound spectacular.  

jayctoy, No one would argue with the positive experience you had listening to your friend's system, but in my opinion the system as described is very pedestrian for its day (late 90s to early 2000s) or any day, actually.  For one thing, my buddy owned an LS2B.  We both thought it was one of the least good sounding preamplifiers ever made by ARC. That's the nicest way I can put it.   I can say this to you I hope without personal insult, because it was not your system.  But this just goes to show us that there is pleasure to be had from even a set-up that would be considered mediocre at best by most.