Legacy Audio?

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Has anyone here owned or spent some significant time with any of their offerings? Curious to see what people think or have experienced.
 
Years back I had their Focus speakers for a while. Big, bold and musical. Good fit and finish for the day.
Have heard their stuff at the audio shows and it was always a pleasant room to visit.
Bill, the owner, is very knowledgeable and is always available for any questions.
They have a showroom in Springfield IL. if your ever in that neck of the woods.
 
A good friend has Legacy, he had the Focus SE for years and now has theV. I thought the Focus were outstanding for the money, meaning they could hold their own with other brands $20k models.

The V set up sounds great, the price is getting up there though but does include the Wavelet which offers DSP room correction, a DAC if needed and some other features, I'm not fully versed on that aspect. I believe it is the crossover too.

He has always had Lampi DAC's and Coda amps.

Those larger models through a huge soundstage, good imaging.

He also has a HT set up using the Silloette on-wall, that set up is nice as well.

I feel Legacy offer a good price to performance ratio
 
My good friend has the Focus SE and they are outstanding IMO. They are very balanced and work well with many genre of music. His house is the staple location for our local audio GTG and I never tire of listening to his system. I think they are a very underrated brand.
 
nc42acc said:
My good friend has the Focus SE and they are outstanding IMO. They are very balanced and work well with many genre of music. His house is the staple location for our local audio GTG and I never tire of listening to his system. I think they are a very underrated brand.
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If interested, get in touch with @SCaudiophile - he has the big Valors and has owned several of their different models over the years. He knows Bill well and can give you the skinny (and I'm quite positive he wouldn't mind me mentioning this).
 
Hounddog said:
If interested, get in touch with @SCaudiophile - he has the big Valors and has owned several of their different models over the years. He knows Bill well and can give you the skinny (and I'm quite positive he wouldn't mind me mentioning this).
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+1. Talk to Mark! Other than Bill, nobody is more informed about Legacy!
 
Just ordered a pair of Calibre's, we will see what they can do.
 
I have their Aeris speakers with the wavelet. I never get tired of listening to them. Although I’ve not heard the calibre, I’m sure they will give you tons of the Legacy experience. What amplification will you be using?
 
My main system uses the Accuphase P7300. If the Calibre’s impress then Ill go for the Aeris as well.
 
Very nice! I assume the Calibre’s run with the wavelet. Will you be running a preamp into the Wavelet or use the wavelet as the preamp. I’ve tried it both way’s and they both sound great but I prefer running a preamp into the wavelet.
 
I'm sure you can use the Wavelet with the Calibre's but I did not purchase it, I'm going to treat them like standard passive speakers and see how they perform. I can only assume the Wavelet, programmed for them, would increase their performance within a given room. We will see
 
crwilli said:
+1. Talk to Mark! Other than Bill, nobody is more informed about Legacy!
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Thanks Craig,...just saw this and happy to help!

I'm a long term Legacy customer though I've had other top notch speakers (e.g. TAD R1 Mk2s along the way a few years ago);

Caliber (passive), the fully active version and the partially active version (like I ordered with dual 8" inside and outside firing drivers) all
get it done for sure. Only the Active and Semi-Active work with Wavelet as far as I know but Bill Dudleston may tell you different and he
should know :-)

I owned a killer combination of CaliberXDs, 2 Foundation monster subs, all actively crossed over and driven by Wavelet; for mid-$20K range
with Wavelet, it smashed speakers costing many multiples more (IMHO).

I own Valor with Wavelet now and could not be happier.

I've also owned Focus 20/20, Victoria LE, Studio HD, Silverscreen II and HDs, Mist IIs, Focus HDs, Focus SE and AERIS and almost
(an might yet get for a 2nd pair), Whisper XDS which is one of the best speakers on the planet (again IMHO). A friend has Vs as
well; have heard them and they are excellent but for my money, Valor is the ticket of the 2 for how I listen.
 
Great choice. I have the Calibres and love them. If the Accuphase is the amp you're using, it should have enough power at 250 wpc @ 4 ohms, but they love power and current. You really can't give them too much juice. I started out with passive Calibres and my 100 wpc Rogue Cronus Magnum (great amp) was good but not quite enough for them. I upgraded to Calibre XD'S and am bi-amping them with the 750 wpc internal ice amps running the woofers and my Rogue running the mid drivers and AMT tweeters. Unbelievable sound and spl's! They sound great at all levels and can pressurize a room like you wouldn't believe when I crank them.
Anxious to hear your impressions.
 
BUMP, I just sold my persona 7f and am considering the legacy Aeris with wavelet after listening to legacy at the last axpona. they are attractive in their way but how do they do with inner detail, midrange dynamics and low volume evening listening?
 
steve59 said:
BUMP, I just sold my persona 7f and am considering the legacy Aeris with wavelet after listening to legacy at the last axpona. they are attractive in their way but how do they do with inner detail, midrange dynamics and low volume evening listening?
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I owned Aeris for a couple years and only sold them for personal reasons; it took TAD R1 Mk2s at 4 times the retail price (more now) to equal them
in terms of 3D imaging and soundstaging quality, extent, dynamics, top to bottom coherency, etc...AND I was still missing almost the entire bottom
half octave of deep bass (the R1s for me went beyond their spec in-room and with my cables) and I found myself missing the 10" midrange driver
on the Aeris. To your question as to how well they do at inner detail, answer is extremely well. For your question on midrange, exceptionally(!)
well and the TAD R1s did not equal them for midrange though the R1s were darned good in that regard.

I've got Valor now with the 14" midrange and midbass so inner detail and midrange is even better however you'd have to go a LONG(!) way
financially to truly beat the Aeris with Wavelet.

Note: my comments are concerning the way mine were built,....internal amplification was installed for bass and subwoofer drivers only.

I had multiple sets of binding posts (for future flexibility) and ran with a single high-end stereo amp, the Esoteric A-02 driving the midrange and
treble externally with a full-range set of speaker cables into bottom set of binding posts jumpered up to the top posts with identical matching jumpers
to my speaker cables. I had them built to allow me to go to 4 channels of amplification to drive the mids and treble separate but never saw the need
with AERIS. I call out my config as the baseline for my comments as that is the 'semi-active' way to built AERIS and have Wavelet as a full external
crossover with Room Correction. As I understand it, Legacy will build them "fully active", i.e. all amps internal and other variants.

Happy to speak tonight via phone or anytime on Sunday or next week. Drop me a PM here if interested. I can also point to a couple of guys with
listening skills I respect and high end systems themselves who heard the AERIS on multiple occasions, the R1s after them multiple times and
the Valor since if you want listening impressions from guys who did not own them and as such have an owner-bias, but did listen many times at my place.
 
thanks for taking the time to post. The speakers come with the wavelaunch processor not wavelet my mistake. The speakers playing at axpona last show were seriously good and I can usually pick apart speakers in show conditions. The amplification will be a hegel h360 but with the 2 500 watt built in amps it should be plenty. trade in for the wavelet is $4100 and i'll be looking for recommendations in that regard within 6 months or so. I appreciate the offer to call and i'll probably pm for your# sunday.
 
steve59 said:
thanks for taking the time to post. The speakers come with the wavelaunch processor not wavelet my mistake. The speakers playing at axpona last show were seriously good and I can usually pick apart speakers in show conditions. The amplification will be a hegel h360 but with the 2 500 watt built in amps it should be plenty. trade in for the wavelet is $4100 and i'll be looking for recommendations in that regard within 6 months or so. I appreciate the offer to call and i'll probably pm for your# sunday.
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Excellent...looking forward to the call.

When I bought AERIS, it came with a Xilica XP-4080. It was 1+ years later that Wavelet became enabled for AERIS so I bought the upgrade.

I know several people who have all bought AERIS in the last 2 years, all went with Wavelet...

Happy to help and talk more soon.
 
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