Anyone listened to LaHave Speakers


This is a speaker that has come on to my radar although I've never heard it. Apparently a very small manufacturer out of Nova Scotia Canada they have been making monitor speakers for 25 years yet seem almost completely unknown to the audiophile community. They have shown at the Montreal Audio Show over the years and most recently at RMAF with their Mela model.

How many of you have heard them and what are your impressions of their presentation? The buzz about these speakers seems under the radar but of the ones that have actually HEARD them there seems to be a concensus that they are quite special in their realistic presentation of music. What is the dope on these speakers? I really am quite curious but info seems quite limited and their website sure doesn't provide much information.
tubegroover
Hi Tubegroover. The measures of my room are 3x5.50 metres.
The Melas are 60 cm.to the back wall and 45 cm.to the sides walls. The tweteers always must be looking to the sweet spot.
I listen to music at 3.5 metres aprox.
The low frequency extension is exellent with surprising punch and good detail its size. The passive radiator bass sound is natural and credible.
A lot of great information Rx8man, wouldn't you agree? I didn't provide the website because it's almost a joke. A realization of how small this outfit is but the proof is in the results and the real matter at hand, does it really deliver the goods? It all kind of lends to the mystique of the brand, other than those who've heard and the seemingly universal praise and favorable comparisons to highly regarded, and uber more expensive speakers. You are there realism, organic presentation, natural resolution, non-fatiguing are descriptions that I keep hearing. I sure would like to hear them and plan to one way or another.
My room is large-ish, about 22 feet by 13 feet, but I do sit nearfield and have them on the long wall. It may not be relevant here and I have never come into contact with any other Lahave than my own, but fit/finish/build quality/sturdyness is as good as I have ever seen. Every bolt, seam, surface feature (and symmetry-factor) looks perfect to me no matter how close I examine them. They do best with neutral amplification and they do like tubes somewhere in the chain, and they scale with a better food chain, although solid state is very good also. They are revealing but not ruthlessly so. I have a tube preamp and a solid state power amp. (I use a nonwarmish Psvane 6NS7 tube in my preamp for best results; I am a Psvane tube fan.)
The Melas are NOT dull speaker--the highs are very present and soar, but they do not sting at all. I like the highs much better than my old Kharma 3.2FEs, which could be painful. The Kharmas were imaging champs, with a total disappearing act even with one speaker driven, but it came at a cost of some fatiguing highs. Overall tonality is definitely preferable to me in the Lahaves over the Kharmas.