I must have been preoccupied back in June to not see this post.
I wrote a bit, that is, a three part article, on the DSW Whisper, which can be seen at Dagogo.com. Feel free to do a search for "Legacy DSW Whisper" or similar. I would put a link to it, but I believe that is prohibited here. You will learn that the speaker is what I call a "crossover speaker," that is, capable of being switched between three modes; 1. passive internal crossover paired with as little as a single amp and tri-wire cabling; 2. Hybrid operation with actively crossed bass and passive Midrange and Tweeter, incorporating an eight channel processor and six channels of amplification; 3. Fully active, using the processor and all channels driven by dedicated amplification. That gets more complicated, but I walk through it in the article.
Later, I returned the speakers to Legacy for the second element, the "Clarity Edition" upgrade, in which all drivers of the speaker were outfitted with 10Ga. Clarity Cable. Bill Dudleston also implemented Clarity Caps (no relation of company to Clarity Cable), which yielded both an audible and measurable improvement, as noted in my article "Legacy Audio Whisper Clarity Edition", so you can see how the influence of the wiring/caps impacted the speaker.
I continue to use my DSW Clarity Whispers as my reference line source-type speakers for reviewing and personal use. If you have questions, feel free to contact me regarding them.
To see where, and how Legacy speakers are built from crossovers to cabinets - not in China, but in the U.S.A. - see the short segment, "Building A Legacy" on their website. :)
