Long time owner here (since 2013) and surprisingly I'm still in love with these speakers after all these years.
Mr. Dallas is right, they're not 'airy' speakers in the treble department, they're clinically detailed. Not everyone's cup of Java.
But I have found that if more power is applied, the more expansive they sound and the treble comes more into focus, relieving some of the harshness.
I have them paired with Yammy RX-A2040 with a puny Velodyne 8" sub in a off-kilter 20'x20's room (one end of the room has a cathedral ceiling) and yet I think they sound great and so do many of the people I've demoed them for, to the point 3 of them have bought 'em and they've had no regrets.
Thank god, I would have never heard the end of it.
The mistake that I've seen most often with the LS50's is people pairing them with a less than robust power plant and they complain of tinniness in the sound when they try to play them loud for a party or something.
One of my friends who bought them after he demoed mine, came back to me to complain about this. I dragged up my old Yammy RX-V3900 to his house and all I'll I heard was tumbleweeds out of him.
Another satisfied, if light in the wallet, customer.
Mr. Dallas is right, they're not 'airy' speakers in the treble department, they're clinically detailed. Not everyone's cup of Java.
But I have found that if more power is applied, the more expansive they sound and the treble comes more into focus, relieving some of the harshness.
I have them paired with Yammy RX-A2040 with a puny Velodyne 8" sub in a off-kilter 20'x20's room (one end of the room has a cathedral ceiling) and yet I think they sound great and so do many of the people I've demoed them for, to the point 3 of them have bought 'em and they've had no regrets.
Thank god, I would have never heard the end of it.
The mistake that I've seen most often with the LS50's is people pairing them with a less than robust power plant and they complain of tinniness in the sound when they try to play them loud for a party or something.
One of my friends who bought them after he demoed mine, came back to me to complain about this. I dragged up my old Yammy RX-V3900 to his house and all I'll I heard was tumbleweeds out of him.
Another satisfied, if light in the wallet, customer.