Aric Audio Special 6V6 power amplifier
Hattor Audio preamplifier
SPL Phonos phono preamplifier
VPI Aries II
Soundsmith Carmen II
Lumin U1-Mini
Denafrips Pontus II DAC
Klipsch Lascala II
Starsound Sonoran Plateau interconnects
Starsound Sonoran Plateau power cords
Virtual Dynamics power cord
Cable Research Labs Silver power
Western Electric vintage wire
Furman Elite 15 power conditioner
Rigidrack audio rack
F that. I don’t need measurements to tell me what pleases me. If you care that much about data, you should just curl up with an oscilloscope and some test tones. Leave the enjoyment of music to the rest of us.
I doubt it. I was so disappointed with the speakers on first listen right out of the box that I called the dealer to ask for my old speakers back that I traded in. He said if I felt the same way after some hours on them he would comply. I went from dismay to complete bliss with those VR4s. I’ve never heard such a drastic change. And I could have just given them back.
How cute. You think anyone setting up sound reinforcement for a rock concert cares about or knows about speaker break in? Ridiculous premise that is not remotely relevant.
Explain this one. New speakers don’t sound good. Leave them in a room playing 24/7 for weeks. During this time they aren’t listened to. Come back after several hundred hours and they sound very different. How did you acclimate to the speakers if you weren’t even in the same room all this time?
This isn’t a hypothetical, it happened to me with Von Schweikert speakers in the mid 90s.
If you don’t believe lascalas have bass I can show you different in a minute. Now if you want to listen to pipe organ, keep looking. But to say that LS has no bass is an ignorant statement.
I've had speakers that image better, with better soundstage depth. Not a huge deal breaker for me though. And a couple had deeper and more controlled bass. But none of these speakers could be driven with a handful of watts.
I never did get the confirmation that these are AL5s. In his OP, he says "new lascalas". Well that could be "new to him".
So if indeed they are brand spanking, out of the box new, then more break in time will most likely cure his issues.
I've owned over 30 different speakers in the last 25 years. These were probably the last ten I've had that weren't Klipsch.
Spatial Audio X3
Reference 3a Grand Veena
Green Mountain Audio Continuum 3
Wilson Audio Sophia
Piega P10
Von Schweikert VR4 Gen III HSE
PBN Montana EPS3
PBN Montana SP2
Magnepan 3.5r
Silverline Sonata II
Most of these were very good and brought some things to the table that horns don't. But at the end of the day, the immediacy and dynamics of horns win. For now.....