No love for Legacy Audio

I've heard plenty of highly reviewed product sound bad at shows. Best sound at shows is more often than not the set up skills of the exhibitor much more than the components or system themselves. Just ask Jim Smith, one of the best system set up guys I know.

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It is why i boasted myself here more about my room acoustic homemade than about my gear choices...

People think that reading the user manual of an amplifier is knowledge...

It is so evident that acoustic is the heart of audio not electronic design so good it is... Psycho-acoustics is the blood in the acoustic heart.... The rest is marketing...

And small room acoustics is very different from great hall acoustic... Same science two completely different architecture and installation ...Two specialities ...

I’ve heard plenty of highly reviewed product sound bad at shows. Best sound at shows is more often than not the set up skills of the exhibitor much more than the components or system themselves. Just ask Jim Smith, one of the best system set up guys I know.

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Who knows?

Just an update, I've dialed in my Legacy Audio Empires better, now they are great for music. In particular electronic, rap, pop, and acoustic music sounds huge on them. I'll probably never part with these as long as they're functional, they're SO good for dance music & movies/video games. Like I said, Tie Fighters sound like they flying over you. Also surprised how much low end I'm able to get out of them with EQ for being open baffle, no need for sub, but I guess having 6 12 inch woofers helps with that.

For the price these (very rarely) show up, I cant think of bigger sounding speakers that still have good sound quality.

I think the fist full of large woofers helps make these compete with modern systems by helping keep harmonic distortion relatively low for a system thats 25 years old.

I really wish Legacy would make another open baffle in this style again with analog crossovers. The newer ones look nice (and sounded good when I heard them at Axpona too), but I'm not interested being tied to their digital crossover and conversion system. I'd like to mix and match amps & DACs with my speakers.

I owned a pair of Signature SEs for a few years. I thought they would be my end game speaker. I was particularly impressed with their air motion tweeter and ability to be placed close to the wall due to their sealed enclosure. Over time they seemed to be missing something. For large speakers with two big woofers they seemed to be lacking in bass. Also the lower mid-range seemed to have a hole in it. I experimented  with placement but they sounded the same. I was driving them with a 400 watt McIntosh amp.

One day after owning them for 3 years or so, I pulled out my old Green Mountain Chromas from storage. These are stand mounted monitors

Much, much better in every respect but the tweeter. I sold the Signature SEs. Eventually I bought Kef Reference 1s and used the Chromas in another system. I wondered what I was thinking when I bought them. I wanted to like them