Troy: Having a pair of Purist LT's myself, I'll be very interested in your assessment. I've owned mine a long time - I had already purchased mine prior to the aforementioned Stereophile review coming out. It was nice seeing the positive comments at the time, and I kept (and still have) that issue. Although they have sometimes gone back in their boxes when other speakers stepped in, they are the ones I've hung on to and are currently my primary speakers again. I've always felt that they did extremely well within their limits - the bass rolls off pretty rapidly somewhere around 40 hz, and they definitely are not candidates for trying to reproduce concert sound levels. However, given compatible program material, and particularly with female vocals or jazz, I believe you will find that they can really sing.
Anyone remember speakers by Kindel Audio?
I owned 2 different pairs of Kindel speakers, the Phantom and the PLS-a, a friend still has the PLS-a's and they still sound fantastic. Am I the only one who was into these? Bill Kindel is a talented speaker designer. Seems like with the demand for speakers that are efficent the PLS-a at 94db would be great for SET guys. They were an 8ohm nominal load but do have a dip to 2ohms. This may drive some SET amp nuts. The PLS-a is big(130 lbs. each) and dynamic! The Phantom was a smaller speaker for a more intemate listening room. They had fabulas sound and were very transparent! I miss them sometimes.
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