Upgrading the Source.

Look, I'm not knocking your LSi's. I know you love them and they obviously do the job for you. . I'm just saying, from my listening experiences, there are much better choices, as far as monitors go, that I would pursue. True, I've never heard your monitors, but I have heard much more expensive Polks, that couldn't go tete at tete with any of the monitors I mentioned. Great source,amp, cables, ICs the like? All that "great" stuff needs a great forum--....and dat be the speakers. I've beaten this to death...happy listening warren

I have only heard Revel speakers in two dealerships but one had them in dedicated single speaker room. A souless musical presentation is what I say. I was bored and irritated within 5 min. They are a technologial achievement but are in no way a musical transducer.

Warrenh:

You said: "True, I've never heard your monitors, but I have heard much more expensive Polks, that couldn't go tete at tete with any of the monitors I mentioned."

That right there, says it all...I don't mean to knock on you, but like a friend of mine said once: "If you don't know, you don't know".

Until you listen to those monitors in particular, you really can't judge. You can't judge their sound from what you heard of other Polk models from the past, no matter how expensive they were, because they are different. Technology evolves, so does speaker building knowledge. The LSi line is quite possibly the best line of speakers Polk has ever built, regardless of what previous models costed.

I'll tell you what something. I've never listened to your monitors, but I've listened to the Revel M20s, for all their virtues(and they have many), to my ears they seem clinical. I've listened to the B&W N805, and I prefer the Polks...That doesn't mean I haven't heard speakers I didn't like more than the Polks. I heard a pair of Thiel CS2.4 at a friend's house, and those are DAMN impressive speakers. But even those, are not without drawbacks.

And ultimately that's what we're talking about here, preference and taste. Like I said before, there is no arguing matters of taste. Taste(preference) needs no justification, it is what it is...

You like your monitors, God bless you for that. Listen and enjoy them. Now, THAT doesn't make anyone else's choice any less valid. Nor does it necessarily makes your speakers or any of the ones you mentioned any better than the Polks. They are different, and they appeal to different tastes.

Some audiophiles love tube amps and swear by them...as of right now, I wouldn't spend a dime on a tube amp. That's me, that's my choice, but it doesn't make tube amps invalid, or bad choices. Just not my cup of tea. I'm just an engineer who hates putting up with inconvenience...and I'm not an audiophile, just a music lover.

One more thing Warrenh...

About me being nuts, I know it was tongue in cheek and all so I wasn't offended. But I'll tell you something. Your power conditioner, costs almost twice as much as your CD Player, and as much as your integrated amp. By your own line of thinking, that would be a wrong choice, you should have spent more money on your digital source(and amp), improving it as much as you could(maybe get an Audio Aero Capitole) before addressing the power conditioning solution.

By audiophile standards, that's nuts too. "Adiophile wisdom" says: you should have all of your components in order before addressing power conditioning.

Nevertheless, you're extremely happy with your system. So who's to say you're wrong?? Not me, that's for sure. Hell, I'm happy that you've found audio nirvana. I'm the guy that has over $7500 worth of electronics hooked up to a pair of $1500 speakers...I don't follow "Audiophile Wisdom"...I just buy what my ears like.

Again, is all a matter of preferences...

WOW! Tom, you are the first for that musical review of the Revels: "no way a musical transducer?" Man, we must have been listening to different Revels. Never met a Revel I didn't like/love. Live and learn...