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**prearpaccew** · 02-15-2012, 05:48 PM

Intelligent minds require great sound also. When one reaches 50 years of age it's the midrange that matters most of which this speaker is magic. This could only have been accomplished with an entity like the BBC who had unlimited funds and enlisted the best electrical and acoustic engineers of the time (1974), to design a speaker with the most accurate vocal reproduction possible within a specific footprint. Even with today's improved technology there are few speakers at any cost with the ability to reproduce vocals and acoustic instruments as realistically as the LS3/5A.

I have to say for a compact set I can drive them really loud without perceptible clipping or distortion. I used to have giant speakers as we all did during the "audiophile" years. There is no need whatsoever. I can take these guys and make the level uncomfortably loud. I could probably get the neighbors to call the cops if I tried. Now, there is no getting around the loss of low end "fat" bass when you have no real woofers though. Thankfully I am not appreciative of hardcore rap music. I am about your age too. they have that weird British impedance Ohm level. It doesn't seem to matter.

I made my own custom media cabinet out of 3/4 inch inch thick Peruvian walnut. It was only partially milled. I had to surface plane it, route the detail, do all the dovetail joinery and put in the barrister door slide. The top lifts like a hope chest and the front panel slides and drops to hide storage. It was a labor of love, but when you make it yourself, you can make everything fit perfectly.

02-15-2012, 05:48 PM	#30
prearpaccew Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 466 Senior Member	Intelligent minds require great sound also. When one reaches 50 years of age it's the midrange that matters most of which this speaker is magic. This could only have been accomplished with an entity like the BBC who had unlimited funds and enlisted the best electrical and acoustic engineers of the time (1974), to design a speaker with the most accurate vocal reproduction possible within a specific footprint. Even with today's improved technology there are few speakers at any cost with the ability to reproduce vocals and acoustic instruments as realistically as the LS3/5A. I have to say for a compact set I can drive them really loud without perceptible clipping or distortion. I used to have giant speakers as we all did during the "audiophile" years. There is no need whatsoever. I can take these guys and make the level uncomfortably loud. I could probably get the neighbors to call the cops if I tried. Now, there is no getting around the loss of low end "fat" bass when you have no real woofers though. Thankfully I am not appreciative of hardcore rap music. I am about your age too. they have that weird British impedance Ohm level. It doesn't seem to matter. I made my own custom media cabinet out of 3/4 inch inch thick Peruvian walnut. It was only partially milled. I had to surface plane it, route the detail, do all the dovetail joinery and put in the barrister door slide. The top lifts like a hope chest and the front panel slides and drops to hide storage. It was a labor of love, but when you make it yourself, you can make everything fit perfectly.
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