The only speakers that bettered my Lx521 was a point source horn system - amazing dynamics and better detail.
The paradox of the Lx521 is that it needs space, usually means larger rooms in your typical home style environment. Yet in a larger room it cant do loud. Or at least it does not sound very nice at louder volumes.
The Lx521 is hard to beat ar low/mod listening levels.
I believe, but don’t have evidence, that Dynamic Range is an important factor to sounding live, or life-like. Related to this is voltage sensitivity, I believe.
Erin does Dynamic Range testing. (Instantaneous Compression Test).
see erinsaudiocorner.com
One starts to see why not all “simple boxed 2 way speakers” are created equally when you see that the M2 shows absolutely no difference between pianissimo and fortissimo
(60dB to 102dB/1m)
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