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I was moving air all last week. I think it might have been some salad I ate.
John, we need some closure on this issue. Can you spring for a Velocitometer and add "air movement" to your already impressive array of measurement criteria, when you and/or your crew review speakers? We appreciate the sensitivity figures, the in-room response plots, the waterfalls, step-response traces, and cabinet resonance tests, we really do, but this "air movement" has me intrigued. All of us may have missed something, in our search for microdynamics and airy subtleties in the upper registers. Do it. Measure air movement. It has to be done. It is an idea whose time has come. I nominate Janis Ian's "Breaking Wind" as the benchmark test standard recording. Think of it. You can be the first. The industry can only be the better for it.
Read the last 2 sentences. If I'm going to spend $$$$$$ on some audiophile loudspeakers I shouldn't have to spend any additional $$ to resolve its' "limitations".
This would be comparable to purchasing a 500 horse power Bentley then having to buy better quality tires, so the vehicle will handle properly.
He also claims the limitations on the WHISPER model. He was gonna give me the answer for $100. I passed. But he is correct that if you ain't got no air moving, you ain't got no realism. That is also Legacy's philosophy. I agree, attend more live events, then come home and listen to some small speakers, somehow it ain't the same is it. Checkout Legacys website and Bill D. talks all about it. I'm a beleiver, used both Focus and Whispers, Bill D. is right. Trying to tweak your system into doing something it just can't do, with magic wires, and exhorbitant priced crap, is just time wasted, and money wasted. Watts speakers...too major claims to realisim.