@ledoux1238 Will do. My room is very different..er..loft actually, 13 x 16 feet. Speakers are on the long wall. There’s no wall behind my head, just the balcony rail and a downward sloping ceiling behind me. It’s not a great room, but after visiting the Florida Audio Show a few days ago, I’m reminded there are much worse rooms and mine actually works pretty well. I think Greene mentioned the LFTs aren’t for people who like rock concert-level SPLs. Like most people, I assume, I listen in the 75-85dB range and have occasionally cranked things up into the low 90s dB range, briefly. The LFTs will blow your hair back if you need them to and still sound great.
I agree on the lack of discussion on the DSP setup and tuning. I know some folks would be concerned about the A-D and D-A conversion, but many of those same guys will tell you to listen to/trust your ears and not numbers. I’m not one to let perfect be the enemy of the great.
I do agree that the relatively low cost of the LFT-8b/c sounding so good is unusual. But, look at the speaker. It’s primarily function with little form(very pricey cabinet work). The "cabinet" for the panel is simple wood rail trim. (actually I made a new set out of cherry). Combine simple finish work with no advertising and low overhead...and much of the bloat in speaker costs disappear. And I know we’re all familiar with very pricey, gorgeous sets of speakers that contain very modest-cost components. With some exceptions, the higher prices largely go to support everything but the speaker components. Someone needs to pay for Office staff, Sales & Marketing people, Warehouse/Logistics/Transportation staff, Customer Service, the Distributor network, and final Retail Outlet markup.
I listen to primarily jazz with doses of jazz vocals, chamber music, bluegrass, acoustic blues and female vocals of many sorts tossed in. My 8b’s sound..glorious. I expect the 8c’s will be yet another step up.
@gkelly ...after reading Greene’s rather long, descriptive review, it hard not to write in a similar vein.. :)
@decooney Where is your dealer? I’d love to hear the LFTs with reasonably large tube power. I recently sent my McCormack DNA-1 out to SMc for a rebuild and it’s likely I’ll be substituting, or at least attempting to substitute, a Don Sachs Kootenay amp (60 watts) in for power. I don’t expect much..but who knows. The speaker impedance is 8 ohm, but the sensitivity is low. The (original) owner of my speakers was running them with CJ tube power of around 70 watts I think. He said it worked fine. He’d already sold the CJ off as he was rebuilding his system (he completely rebuilt new systems every 6-7 years..interesting approach to keeping things..new), so I couldn't hear the original setup.