I had two pairs of Rogers 11ohms (and AB-1s) that I bought when I first heard that Rogers had gone bust - these were Rogers NOS stock that Doug Stirling resold, so would have been the same as the V1 Stirlings. I also had my 1987 11ohm pair I ought from Rogers with my BBC discount, and these all sounded the same.
I later added the Cicable premium crossovers to the 11ohms Rogers, and put them in thin wall cabinets, and that was a MASSIVE improvement - the LS3/5a was more of a grade 1 monitor now instead of a grade 2, and I preferred them to some Harbeth M30.1s I had at the time (which sounded like a big LS3/5a - a 'mistake' the chief LS3/5a hater Alan Shaw rectified in the M30.2).
The Cicables brought a huge reduction in THD and they were a lot more transparent.
I then had some V2s which were great but sounded muddy compared to the Cicabled pair, but had way better bass extension and power handling.
The V3s have the same sort of transparency and openness as the Cicabled 11ohm pair, but they are not not quite as smooth in the upper midrange/treble. As I use them with AB-2 bass extenders the difference in bass handling is not so much of an issue for me.
I also have Cicables for the V2, but when I hooked them up they didn't sound right to me - Doug reckoned they worked well with tube amps but not solid state, but not sure about that.
Early V2s used Scanspeak tweeters, but they switched to SEAS tweeters in 2016, so perhaps there was a mismatch in the V2s I was using to the Cicables, but I was thinking about trying to contract Derek to have a look at matching them up to the current SEAS driver set in the V2 and V3, which should then give me slightly better results than the V3.
I will open up my V2 Cicables and have a look at the size of the xover to see if it might be worth it, as the V3 xover board is only 16mm smaller all round than the front baffle on the V2, is mounted on the back panel to reduce interaction with the drive units, and weighs and extra 1.2Kg over the crossover in the V2.
I also need to get the T27 replaced in my Cicabled 11 pair as I was stupidly careless with hooking them up one day and blew a tweeter :-(
I will be examining my other Rogers 11ohm pair and a Spendor 11ohm pair to see if the tweeter sensitivities match as this is not easily modifiable in the Cicable unit, and if not Falcon will try and match a pair of their tweeters to my one remaining one for cost plus time looking for a match.
When I see comments about the Cicables not making much of a difference, or even that the V3 is not much of an improvement over the V2, I can only assume that the user needs to have a look at the quality of their amplication as this is probably limiting their system - I use Quad QMP mono power amps (previous 909 monos) but note that I had to move to a Music Audio V2 classic preamp in order to for the pre-amp not to sound like it was filtering the music.
However, when I used a integrated tube amp (Rogers E40a) this had that same transparency, but was obviously a lot less money.
