I owned a pair of La Folias. They have a very transparent sound, huge soundstage, powerful bass, great mids. Highs and upper mids can be a bit hard with the wrong amp. They can be ruthlessly revealing, but are great with the right stuff.
I like them with tubes. Problem is that the designer can no longer supply replacement drivers for them, as Dynaudio is unwilling to sell to aftermarket speaker builders. They still sell to some (Merlin), but Silverline isn't one of them. Maybe he has worked this out since I owned mine, but I haven't heard otherwise. The other problem is that, at least on some of these speakers, they had bad drivers. One of mine did. I thought it was the amp clipping, but later found out one of the speakers had a bad driver. Alan at Silverline supposedly fixed it, but it went bad again.
What's even more interesting is that Martin DeWulf of Bound For Sound had a similar experience with a pair of La Folias he had up for review. He agreed they are a great speaker, but I thought it very unusual that he would have this problem also.
I can't understand how these speakers can still be sold with the lack of driver availability to the manufacturer. Anybody know more about this?
I like them with tubes. Problem is that the designer can no longer supply replacement drivers for them, as Dynaudio is unwilling to sell to aftermarket speaker builders. They still sell to some (Merlin), but Silverline isn't one of them. Maybe he has worked this out since I owned mine, but I haven't heard otherwise. The other problem is that, at least on some of these speakers, they had bad drivers. One of mine did. I thought it was the amp clipping, but later found out one of the speakers had a bad driver. Alan at Silverline supposedly fixed it, but it went bad again.
What's even more interesting is that Martin DeWulf of Bound For Sound had a similar experience with a pair of La Folias he had up for review. He agreed they are a great speaker, but I thought it very unusual that he would have this problem also.
I can't understand how these speakers can still be sold with the lack of driver availability to the manufacturer. Anybody know more about this?