Legacy Focus SE or PS Audio FR20

@hickamore Thanks to you and others for SE recommendations. I’ll look into those as well. My room is a largest L-shaped basement room but the system and speakers and listening area are in about half of the long side so hard to define “size”. But certainly worth a look at SEs 

 ^^^^^      harden90

  Well bye bye. Not sure what your issue is, OP asked a question and got some decent advice from owners .of products in question. Not sure what you're upset about....

Have to agree with the majority posting a response here on this topic!

I have the Legacy Calibre XD speakers... and... they are superb in all respects - very few others sound as good - as is true of any of the Legacy speakers when properly set up. All of their speakers sound very similar to each other - depending upon the space they reside in.

They are Open Baffle Hybrids - which have great imaging and soundstage, as well as deep bass, which is refined, "true bass," not bloated "hip hop" bass!

And Legacy Audio (Bill Dudleston and team) is the epitome of class in their customer service! As the founder and designer of all the Legacy equipment, he rivals the engineering / design skills of Siegfried Linkwitz - with his speaker designs. He’s a brilliant engineer and applies that skill in all his designs.

I followed the Aeris development for years, and finally bought a pair about 4 years ago, directly from the factory in Springfield for use in my new Lake House in IL, while it was under construction. They stored them for me, until it was completed. But, when it was completed, I found that they were too large for the space I had available and I realized they were likely too big and heavy to be practical in my application. After 2 years of storage, they readily allowed me to cancel my order and replace the Aeris with the Calibre stand-mount units, which sound virtually the same in my space.

I’m very happy with the "Aeris minis," which sound very much like the Aeris I bought, initially, which I can easily move about as necessary.

"Audiotroy" is correct - they are very efficient - which permits you many more options in electronics (including lower powered tube amps) - especially, if you get the XD version. And... if you get the "Wavelet" you can tune them to sound great in whatever space you have them.

"Just my 600,000+ cents!"

The ps audio ribbons are made of the latest material teonix that is more durable they and jbl horns are using it to my knowledge.its light fast accurate. I have the fr 30 and they are great and the legacy valor.i bought both used.ps audio has a trade in program.i have some old legacy focus and they are still going strong.both owners are customer service oriented and are smart designers and have a great team.enjoy the search.there are many class d amps that have come of age and don't cost much. Ps audio has ice amps like ledacy.they come on the used market alot.i enjoy mine they have a tube front end and 1.2 k watts clean no heat into 4 ohms.light unlike my krell.i put all my amps on the high dollar harbor freight carpet dollies  so me and the grandkids can do amp rolling.keeps them out of trouble.enjoy the hunt.

@aheydorn 

I’m sorry to say that I can’t help you with your decision, having not heard either, but I’m really interested in the PS Audio speakers having heard nothing but good things about them.  So I would be interested in hearing your thoughts if you buy a pair.

All the best.