[quote user="DrWho"] What equipment did you use to measure? And how much of that could have been influences from the room? One of the problems with measuring in-room is that your microphone usually ends up around 3ft off the floor and about 5ft from the ceiling.....which will give you big notches at around 95Hz and 57Hz. Changing the mic height can shift that around. Also, pulling any speaker out of the corner can introduce other notches corresponding the 1/4 wavelength distanes there too

[quote user="psg"] [quote user="jdm56"] I love the way my Energy speakers disappear into the sound stage when set-up and fed properly. That's a quality I've never been able to duplicate with horns, although the LS2 does a much better job in this regard than any other horn speaker I've used. [/quote] Funny, I have the opposite experience with horns. The Heresy II, La Scala and Klipschorn all completely disapear and I have never been able to do that with regular speakers

[quote user="DrWho"]The bass response of the Lascala is like a -6dB or so bass shelf. Flat from the 400Hz crossover down to 100Hz (except for the big peak at 150H) and then like 6dB down from 90 to 50Hz. Boosting the bass bin by 6dB so that the deepest lows of the LF matched the MF/HF section is going to result in a very muddy sound beacuse the entire region from 100 to 400Hz is now gonna be 6dB too hot (and then like 13dB too hot at 150Hz). [/quote] My LS2's, out of the corners, with

[quote user="Islander"] [quote user="jdm56"]Kinda seems to me a $6000 pair of speakers shouldn't require fixing, though. [/quote] They aren't broken. They may not have lots of really low bass, but they have many strengths that other speakers don't have to the same degree, like clarity, soundstaging, dynamics and big sound, even some more expensive speakers. It's easy to add a sub to fill in the low end, and that gives you a really potent team of speakers. It's

[quote user="Blvdre"] Your description of the sound makes me think you're experiencing problems due to your room/ environment. What is your listening room like? [/quote] It's actually a very good, medium-sized room; about 9x15x22, with a corner that opens to two halls; one of the best-sounding rooms I've had. But admittedly, it is a little small for La Scala-sized sound, especially if you factor in a pair of La Scala caliber subs. I'm getting superb results in this room

Mainly, I think it's just a question of how much output capability you want. If you want to fill a theater with good, clean, LOUD sound, you need high sensitivity speakers, period. A typical home living space...well, not so much. This of course, doesn't address other qualitative differences in low-eff / hi-eff designs. Even at moderate volumes in smaller spaces, high-sensitivity designs have an ease that I attribute to their drivers not having to work as hard, that lo-sens. designs just lack

True, they don't need bi-amping for the added power...but the opportunity to equalize the speaker is there...The La Scala's bass is shelved down, similar to the Heresy, and bi-amping could get you a better balanced speaker. Kinda seems to me a $6000 pair of speakers shouldn't require fixing, though.

Congrats on the LS2's! I had a walnut pair for about eight months...I do miss the slam and the clarity. Maybe again, someday.

First off, no, I don't have la scala II's. Used to, but not now. It's a long story... But when I DID have them, I thought the bass was shelved down too much below the mids below about 200Hz. The x/o is 400 or so, so biamping the woofer and jacking up the level could get you too much in the 200-400Hz octave. So...I'm just wondering if bi-amping is the answer. Maybe dual subs with a relatively high x/o (about 150Hz) would be better. I crossed mine to a pair of Velo subs at 100Hz and

From my perspective, the main thing "wrong" with hi-end audio is that it's too exclusive: b&m vendors are too hard to find, prices are too high, and the whole concept is too far beneath the radar of of many potential customers - partly for the preceeding two reasons. Why is it thus? Maybe PWK was right - 99% of the general population either don't care or don't get it ...or don't care to get it.