Good lord... Thank you so much. The amount of valuable data in this is ridiculous and truly appreciated.
My Subjective Experience:
I never got a chance to play with the 305s, however, I do own the 308s (now being using for my desktop — used them as mains in my living room and dedicated listening room — replacing B&W 805 D3s — and they are truly excellent) and I’d recommend them over many loudspeakers in the consumer audio world (or “Hi-Fi) costing upwards of $2k (and in my case a pair of loudspeakers for $6k — which I find to be shameful). As for the residual noise, in my living I was unable to hear it at my listening position of roughly 8ft (and later roughly 7ft). It wasn’t until my AC would go off and it’s really late at night that I was able to hear a very faint hiss... I cannot say it actually bothered me though due to the sheer performance the LSR 3 Series delivers (and the fact that in everyday normal listening, the noise was practically inaudible). In my dedicated listening room (at a listening position of 7.3ft or so from the monitors), audibility of the residual noise rose irrespective of the AC. Although I still wasn’t bothered by it considering I was planning on upgrading to the 7 Series anyway. After moving them to my desktop, plugging both monitors into the same outlet reduced the residual noise to the point where audibility is still is of no real concern (at around 3ft — the hiss is very quiet I’ve grown use to it. As I type this right now, I can barely hear them).
Being aware of the structural integrity of the cabinets (you can feel them vibrating during playback), I cannot say resonances were actually audible in any of my time listening to the 308s. Through hundreds of hours listening, I could not hear any sort of resonances as I’d hear in a loudspeaker like the ELAC Debut 2.0 B6.2s... As for output, in both my dedicated room (11’ x 13’) and living room (open space to kitchen hall way — roughly (13’ x 17’), they could lead me out the room (with headroom and still sound excellent), so this was never a problem. I can wholeheartedly recommend these loudspeakers any day of the week because at its price point (especially when buying used), I cannot think of a single loudspeaker (DIY or commercially) that could outperform them. I believe it is absurd how inexpensive these monitors are. There are no real faults I could find with these monitors, off-axis listening is great, they’re quite accurate, bass response is excellent (especially with room gain) and they’re incredibly addicting to listen to.
Again, I just want to say thanks for your efforts as I’ve never seen such a review that objectively evaluates a loudspeakers performance with breadth and depth. It is actually amazing.
