Your most disappointing purchase or audition?

M 2nd Sony XA7ES...my memory of the 1st one I had made me long for another 3 years after I sold it...either the 2nd one had an issue(not obvious) or my memory had one...still not sure which.

Trelja,
I suppose 2 out of 3 isn't bad.
1. Agree with your take on the merits of paper cones(done properly).Natural is absolutely the right description.
2,My impression of Legacy is the same as yours and Tubegroover.
3. The Acoustic Zen Crescendo made music for certain when I heard it. Anyway I always appreciate your insight and contributions on this site.
Charles,

I heard a pair of Legacy Focus SE a few years back when I was checking out various brands for speakers. I thought they sounded OK, until I stood up from the listening chair and the tweeters disappeared. Sat back down and there they were again. The tiny sweet spot knocked them out of consideration before I even started thinking much about any other qualities. I actually thought their Classic speaker was better, although not big enough for my room.

Re: moderator scrutiny, I've been there for a year now. The comments that I tried to make were admittedly more abrasive than anything Charles said in that other thread (I think I tried to tell someone that he must have come home from third grade early one day and caught his mother having sex on the couch with the speaker for him to hate it so much). I'm frankly surprised that anyone would turn him in for anything he said there. And I would hope the reporting party also turned in the guy who basically said only tin-eared ignorant morons don't like one of the speakers being discussed, but I'm guessing this is a case of whose ox got gored, not a matter of increasing civility in discussions.

There are people who don't like my speakers either. I may not agree with their characterizations of how they sound and may occasionally dispute those characterizations, but in the end I built my system to please ME, not someone on the internet I've never met - or for that matter even my best friends. People are far too quick to assume the victim mantle these days.

That's just too funny P59teitel, I mean Mom on the couch with the speaker. You must be careful what you say when dealing with "serious" people, one never knows or can begin to realize the results. Problem with your case, if I were a moderator and the aggrieved party started complaining, you got a bit too personal, never talk about a son's mom, direct personal assult. In those cases ya gotta nip em at the bud, still funny though, at least to me.

Charles, maybe by all the responses in your favor, I mean really what did you do but offer your opinion, the moderators might just lighten up a bit on opinions offered and focus their attention more on the most egregious crimes and misdemeanors. That guy in Roxy's example sounds like he has some deeper issues, sure wouldn't him to know where I lived.

Well it seems my monitored restriction has been lifted today, thanks audiogon for this action. I sincerely appreciate the support of fellow audiogon members. As with all of my Posts on this site, I was just expressing a honest opinion. As Trelja said, disagreement is expected and often beneficial in open forum discussions.
Charles,