In article , Trevor Wilson
wrote:

**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.

You do seem to be rather going 'over the top' in your rhetoric. I guess I
must be "very stupid" as I still find the LS3/5a a design I can use quite
happily in appropriate circumstances. e.g. I have a pair in the room where
I'm writing this posting. Driven by an old but serviceable Armstrong 626.

They certainly aren't the best units every designed. But they do deliver
good results in situ for R3 and and R4 here. And despite having 'better'
systems elsewhere, I feel no need to change them. Seems odd for you to
dismiss that because I can't recall you ever visiting me to hear them *in
that system, with that source material, in that room*.

I'm assuming you aren't arguing that the room acoustic is irrelevant to
choice of speaker. And it is certainly my experience that the choice of
source material also matters. e.g. old EMI recordings of classical music
tend to sound very different to modern R3 via iplayer.

Jim

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