I owned some lovely walnut veneered (Rogers) LS3/5As which I bought in 1979, but I sold them in 1981, and replaced them with some modified Videoton D100s which had much more life, and worked much better with the amplifiers I had at the time. I suspect that other amplifiers would have encouraged me to stick with the LS3/5as. I graduated onto ARC050s but tried to love the Kan, as I really loved SARAs and Isobariks, but try as I might, the Kans never really did it for me. Same / similar boxes, same or similar bass drivers, but everything else is different. The Tangent TM1 and the Royd Eden were both way better than either, but we weren't allowed to say that at the time!