JustIntonation
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Well I'm finished with the subjective listening tests with the lsr305 mkII.
After damping the sidewall reflections a bit with thick blankets I could better hear the character of the speakers, and compared them with several other speakers and can now pick up on what's wrong with the lsr305 mkII. There's still cabinet resonances etc but I think the biggest error comes probably from the amps. There's just a degredation of sound quality all over, sounds like a layer of distortion in a way, roughness, preventing real transparancy and depth. Comparing even to very cheap Kurzweil KS-40a the Kurzweil beat the lsr305 hands down when it comes to realistic smooth soundquality (though much harder to set up, uneven radiative pattern and treble on axis isn't good due to phase plug etc).
Still €200 isn't bad for a pair of the first version if you have a live room, at least they're fairly flat in frequency from 50-20kHz and they have a balanced (but dark) radiation behavior, but other than that it's bad quality which would have surely fallen apart far more once I really start treating my room.
Sorry for the initial enthousiasm, was hard to tell (at initially low volume) without proper A/B with other speakers and while my listening position was still too reverberant.
After damping the sidewall reflections a bit with thick blankets I could better hear the character of the speakers, and compared them with several other speakers and can now pick up on what's wrong with the lsr305 mkII. There's still cabinet resonances etc but I think the biggest error comes probably from the amps. There's just a degredation of sound quality all over, sounds like a layer of distortion in a way, roughness, preventing real transparancy and depth. Comparing even to very cheap Kurzweil KS-40a the Kurzweil beat the lsr305 hands down when it comes to realistic smooth soundquality (though much harder to set up, uneven radiative pattern and treble on axis isn't good due to phase plug etc).
Still €200 isn't bad for a pair of the first version if you have a live room, at least they're fairly flat in frequency from 50-20kHz and they have a balanced (but dark) radiation behavior, but other than that it's bad quality which would have surely fallen apart far more once I really start treating my room.
Sorry for the initial enthousiasm, was hard to tell (at initially low volume) without proper A/B with other speakers and while my listening position was still too reverberant.