Mr Underhill
pfm Member
I’d been led to believe by some internet folklore etc that they were in the lazy ‘pipe ‘n’ slippers’ class, but on the end of a really good valve amp and with something like a good ECM CD upstream they can do a remarkably punchy drum kit etc.
For the past year I have been using the Sound Artist LS3/5a in my nearfield system. Now these are cheap(ish) Chinese knock offs, but then you get the for a cheap(ish) knock-off price, £600.
I could damn them with faint praise, but I won't - I feed them with a Hugo TT > Nap 140 and have loved the result .....BUT, two days ago I slotted in a Chord Etude. Now allowing for inflation this amp is still twice the price of the 140 at 2021 prices, but it is as though the amp has taken the speakers by the scruff of the neck and told them to stop monkeying around. Truly capable, no pipe 'n' slippers here .....does make me curious to hear what proper LS3/5s can achieve.