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Old April 11th 18, 10:14 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Dave Plowman (News)
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In article ,
Trevor Wilson wrote:
On 11/04/2018 7:26 PM, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Trevor Wilson wrote:
Apart from the lack of extreme LF? Poor maximum SPL? Dreadful DP?
Then there is the fact that they simply won't work as intended in
some rooms.


**I already explained, VERY CAREFULLY, that I make appropriate
allowances for speakers, according to their specific characteristics.


Apart, rather obviously, with the 3/5a which you describe as junk.
Whose designers should be shot. Without being able to give an example
of speaker designed at the same time which was better.

As we would say in the UK, you seem to have a bee in your bonnet about
them. ;-)


**I can only say that there are a large number of very stupid buyers and
a bunch of unscrupulous manufacturers and retailers, for the LS3/5a to
continue to survive well past it's use-by date.


I've no objection to you saying that as it is merely your opinion. But
your comments about the designers unforgivable. Unless backed up with
facts, which you've repeatedly failed to provide.



Of course they can sound great when everything is going for them - but
then so can the 3/5a.


**Nope. Not in 2018. Not in 1993 and not in 1983.


You are simply wrong about that.



**Then you need to get out more. I showed you a speaker which
comprehensively outperforms the LS3/5a in every meaningful measure, at a
vastly lower price. It was released sometime around 1992-ish. And, as I
previously stated, I owned a pair back in 1980-ish. They didn't last
long. I replaced them with a pair of Infinty Infinitesimals. In all
fairness, I cannot state that the Infinitys were any cheaper. In fact, I
think they may have been a good deal more expensive. If that's the case,
then I don't regard it as a fair fight. The NEARs, OTOH, clobbered the
LS3/5as, at a significantly lower price.


I'd guess in your quest for window rattling bass, you likely fooked the
3/5a. Why not just buy some bigger speakers?

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