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No love for Legacy Audio

Hello all. I have been on a few discussions here and read many more. I have not seen many of the posters here talk much about Legacy Audio speakers. I am referring to the Signature SE model and the Focus SE model. I am curious why people don’t seem to like them as much as several other brands that get talked about much more here. What is it you like better about the ones you are consistently raving about. Thank you. 

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lancelock
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I have only heard the Legacy speakers at Audio shows but it has never been good.

vinylvalet
949 posts
 

I've heard plenty of highly reviewed product sound bad at shows. Best sound at shows is more often than not the set up skills of the exhibitor much more than the components or system themselves. Just ask Jim Smith, one of the best system set up guys I know.

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mahgister
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It is why i boasted myself here more about my room acoustic homemade than about my gear choices...

People think that reading the user manual of an amplifier is knowledge...

It is so evident that acoustic is the heart of audio not electronic design so good it is... Psycho-acoustics is the blood in the acoustic heart.... The rest is marketing...

And small room acoustics is very different from great hall acoustic... Same science two completely different architecture and installation ...Two specialities ...

 

I’ve heard plenty of highly reviewed product sound bad at shows. Best sound at shows is more often than not the set up skills of the exhibitor much more than the components or system themselves. Just ask Jim Smith, one of the best system set up guys I know.

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kennymacc
724 posts
 

Who knows?

phasey
15 posts
 

Just an update, I've dialed in my Legacy Audio Empires better, now they are great for music. In particular electronic, rap, pop, and acoustic music sounds huge on them. I'll probably never part with these as long as they're functional, they're SO good for dance music & movies/video games. Like I said, Tie Fighters sound like they flying over you. Also surprised how much low end I'm able to get out of them with EQ for being open baffle, no need for sub, but I guess having 6 12 inch woofers helps with that.

For the price these (very rarely) show up, I cant think of bigger sounding speakers that still have good sound quality.

I think the fist full of large woofers helps make these compete with modern systems by helping keep harmonic distortion relatively low for a system thats 25 years old.

I really wish Legacy would make another open baffle in this style again with analog crossovers. The newer ones look nice (and sounded good when I heard them at Axpona too), but I'm not interested being tied to their digital crossover and conversion system. I'd like to mix and match amps & DACs with my speakers.

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