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In Reply to: RE: "Even the bumps are intact" posted by Brian H P on July 17, 2015 at 11:38:04
>The protruding cabinet edges around the baffle of course raise diffractive
>hell with the highest frequencies -- look at the upper treble jaggies in
>JA's measurements, both on and off axis.
The Falcon LS3/5a review will be posted in our website review archive next week.
>Herb actually preferred its sound to his new KEF LS50s...
I preferred the LS50s to my 1978 Rogers LS3/5as, much as I love the latter.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
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Anyone who thinks the fidelity of the KEF LS50 isn't significantly better than the LS3/5a isn't listening. Preferring the sound and colorations of the LS3/5a to the sound and colorations(less than the LS3/5a but also there, of course)is a completely different statement.
On a second thought I would question how the new speaker can be compared to the original LS3/5a's sound which after 40 years or so can't possibly sound like they originally did.
> I would question how the new speaker can be compared to the original
> LS3/5a's sound which after 40 years or so can't possibly sound like they
> originally did.
A good point. If you look at the comparative response graphs in my review,
you can see that the Falcon has more treble energy overall than my 1978
Rogers.
All I can say is that I start each speaker measurement session with my
1978 LS3/5as and in 25 years I have been doing this they measure the
same. Every couple of years I listen to them for a week or so and they
sound as they always have.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
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