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Hear All-New Radiation Pattern in Utah 30 mins NE of Zu Audio, Kimber Kable

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During any LCS audition we shall, upon your signal, turn off the LCS speakers to allow immediate A-B comparison, mono pole vs. LCS. After this test, check your willingness to tolerate any mono pole, bipole, or dipole loudspeaker.
LCS Late Ceiling Splash reverberant field features the following desired qualities described by Drs. Floyd Toole and Earl Geddes:
1. Full range
2. High output relative to on-axis signal
3. Delayed 10ms-20ms relative to on-axis signal
4. Highly decorrelated from on-axis signal
No other radiation pattern provides LCS' unique magnitude and combination of the above qualities, especially #4. All ye who were underwhelmed with Constant Beamwidth, come hither! Welcome, ye who love omnipole except for its bloated image size and required large spacing from the front wall.
Loudspeaker systems described below available for sales and audition in beautiful Cache Valley, Utah, 75 minutes NE of Salt Lake City, 30 minutes NE of Zu Audio and Kimber Kable. Speakers designed by Duke LeJeune of AudioKinesis. 26x16x8 room. Dispersive and exemplary acoustics w/light treatment. Worth the time and effort. Age 60 retired SFFD Captain and lifetime audio/music industry professional.
Hear now:
$4900/pr Zephrin 46 one-box with LCS Late Ceiling Splash radiation pattern. Two separate full range systems per channel, each 16 Ohm and low 90 dB range. Drive each speaker channel with one amplifier channel (two 16 Ohm loads = 8 Ohm parallel or 32 Ohm series) or two amplifier channels each loaded by 16 Ohm. Flat impedance curves above the bass range. 10-12W tube amp never clipped at 2014 Newport THE Show. A 3-D dream come true for OTL lovers.
$5800/pr Jazz Module 2.0, non LCS. Rear-firing waveguide-loaded compression driver. Solid wood baffle/rounded corners; subtract $1k/pr for square corner baffle.
$2990/5-piece DEBRA Distributed Bass Reflex Array, cabinet design and materials by James Romeyn.
Refined Speaker-To-Line Level Attenuator. Circuit by Jack Elliano of Electra Print Transformer fame. Allows speaker level to drive LCS amplifier + speakers described below. Topmost grade employs eight Vishay S102 resistors. Price depends on wire, chassis, and resistors.
ETA early October:
$8700/4-box Dream Maker LCS system comprising Jazz Module 2.0 described above + separate LCS 2.0 loudspeakers. Subtract $1k for square baffle. A much improved version of 2008 TAS Golden Ear Award Winner (Professor Robert E. Greene).
$2900/pr LCS Late Ceiling Splash loudspeakers. Upgrade any pre-existing loudspeaker including dipole/bipole to our Late Ceiling Splash radiation pattern with these two 92 dB LCS loudspeakers + power amp/level control. Hear LCS and convert today!
See links at the end of this thread for pro reviewer comments Re. Zephrin 46 at 2014 Newport THE Show: http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=125924.0
This page describes Dream Makers LCS with links to 2013 RMAF comments including pro reviewers (new LCS 2.0 speakers coming are smaller and with tighter radiation control pattern): http://jamesromeyn.com/#/home-audio-gear/dream-maker-lcs-late-ceiling-splash-loudspeaker-system

Frosting on the LCS cake is that one stereo pair of an LCS system comprises four separate bass systems. Because each bass system occupies unique geographic space, either the L or R (never both) LCS speaker connects with its electrical polarity inverted to damp bass modes.
Because LCS output delays at least 10ms vs. on-axis signal, inverting the polarity of one LCS channel is inaudible in the mid/treble range. This feature provides a portion of the natural 3-dimensional bass mode damping with Distributed Sub Array. (Side note for attendees at 2013 RMAF who sampled Dream Maker LCS: we did not confirm this bass mode damping feature till after that show.)

Edits: 09/06/14

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