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Review 2 of 49
Price Paid:
$5500.00
from Private estate sale. Summary:
First impression.. Wow. Is it premature to write this? I dont think so. I bought these, and though the "classic" is newer, this is a prestine pair of the original Legacy 1's. No rear firing drivers. Not a blemish on the Blonde Oaken cabinets. I spent a couple hours going through them, I replaced the rotted surround on the 10inch forward firing drivers, on both sides... Once the glue dried, I started in on some semi-soft listening. I tossed the worst possible combo at these speakers, the abosolute worst wire I could find, some very cheap unclaimied freight 18ga copper wire, a decent surround sound processor (not a dedicated stereo piece) then again its a sunfire theater grand.. Hooked up a very old Yamaha M65 power amp set to 4ohms, and ran a denon 5 disk cd changer.. First off, Kravitz's 5 album... wow. Great dynamic bass and the chorus of highs were tangible. I have them 2 feet from the sidewalls, 6 feet or so in between each, backed up to the rear wall... The imagery was emazing, even my tone deaf wife could hear the difference between these and the other dozen pairs of speakers I have on hand.... So a big mess of electronics, wth the worst wire one can buy... The sounds was emazing. Low lows, tight and controlled. The midrange was glorious. The highs came on, and went up into the stratosphere, without being harsh. I tried them with the well constructed grills in place and off to the side. Finally I have found a pair of speakers that do it all. I can easily justify selling my daqhquist dq7c's, my polk ls70's, my klipsch klf's, the specturm audios.... This pair of Legacy 1's do it all, in my opinon. Tomorrow Im going to biwire them with some good wire wire world speaker cables, bring out my Sansui 2101, perhaps my Denon pma 1315r, and the b&k seperates. Im going to thow all my electronics at it and, the run them to their potential. Ill comment later, but I can tell you this, running maybe 50 watts tonight was mind blowing.. Listen to the Dances with Wolves soundtrack, track one with the lights off... Prickled the hairs on my arms to full errect. They are beautiful, deep and image like no other. Strengths:
Cabinets look like they were made by the amish. Real oak, perfect fit, great seams. The grills fit firm, and flush. The built in stands kant the speakers back, and these perfomred well in several different configurations, as far as room arrangement. They are big, heavy and sound like a million bucks. Weaknesses:
My grills came brown in color. Very cool in 1980, not so cool today. With the lights dim, you cant tell.. I will leave them in their orignal color, but I may measure and construct a cosmetic pair just so I dont have to look at the brown... Brown... How could that of ever been considered a correct color to put on a grill? Similar Products Used:
Ive ran all sorts of speakers, and electronics. There are a lot of speakers I like, for different reasons. These Legacy 1's, I love for all the other speakers strengths. I havent found a single area where these are lacking! They walk the dogg on my dahlquist dq7's in the midrange and low end extension. The ls70's sitting in the same room, do not have the bass that the legacy1's have. My spectrum audio coaxial 8's soundstage doesnt come close to these new boheemoths. My Klf 20 Klipsches are probably louder. This hasnt been confirmed, because I havnt pushed these yet, but Id bet the Klipsches are louder... Louder like broken ice sickles stabbing your ears out loud, shrill... Im super impressed with these.
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