Thread: Legacy Audio?

Originally Posted by bjski

Any Legacy Aries owners experienced the difference between the Wavelet and the Wavelet 2? I am on the wait list for the Wavelet 2.

On another note,I did experience a problem with my Aries build. The one cabinet had a seal problem with the bass drivers. My issue was more with the dealer. He was 3 hours away & never followed up with the fix. Legacy sent me a kit and I fixed the speaker. Legacy offered me a 50% discount on any purchases at the time for my effort.

I did have a beautiful pair of the Focus SE with no issues.

A friend made the upgrade but doesn't use the DAC so it's hard to tell much, it does seem to function better. The new feature, I forgot the name, it's supposed to make the music more live, one of the DSP features not on the older Wavelet, anyway he could never get that set to where it was any benefit. Neither of us liked the effect.

Had our GTG last weekend at our friends house with the Legacy SE. His speakers always sound great when paired with quality electronics. They really parrot what you feed them upstream. Legacy seems like a great company, a shady dealer can make any transaction a bad dream.

It does but it's been a while so I can't remember how much. And, my friend is always trying and changing something, LOL

You would have to compare your DAC's to see which sounds best. My friend has a Lampizatar, the model that used to be the top before the Horizon came out, needless to say it's much better than the Wavelet.

Originally Posted by bjski

Very interesting…….I was thinking of moving my current DAC to my second system & just going with the Wavelet 2 DAC eliminating some cables. I compared my current DAC to the original Wavelet & the current DAC is slightly better. I was using a better USB cable going to my current DAC vs USB cable going to the Wavelet.

Does Wavelet 2 sound any better than the original?

Is the room sealed (doors closed) when you listen?

As an aside, I have Valor, a much bigger speaker in 14 x 17 x 8 with an open doorway to front hall in the back corner of the room. Wavelet handles it with no issue.

I would say having owned Focus HD and SE, plus AERIS before this as well that with Focus XD and Wavelet, you will have no issue.

Even without Wavelet, if the room is well treated, as you mentioned, I believe you will be good.

The Sig XD is good...the Focus level is much better!

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You are very welcome...even with Wavelet, my current room has quadratic diffusers on back wall for besr results a little over 3.5 ft from the back of my head. I also have 5 canvas art panels (no stuffing) on front wall for mild diffusion (better than raw drywall) and aesthetics:
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Thank you....I believe it will handle them without issue. They like breathing room, so try for 2-3ft from back and side walls as a minimum IMHO. It's better to have an 8ft speaker center to center width and more breathing room than try much wider. However, your own tweaking and listening will show you the way.

Toe in: with Focus 20/20, HD, SE and Aeris many of us hobbyists have found that aiming the tweeter model section on a line that converges anywhere from 12 to 24" (depends on room) behind your head which gives both great center imaging and depth and ultra wide sound stage, great panning (when recording has it, etc...)

YMMV of course,...I would suggest downloading REW, plugging room dimensions into RoomSIM, and indicating 20 Hz for the bass extent for left and right (also try 18) and input your seating position to come up with an initial SWAG as to position options.

Here is the side of my room with the rest of my gear and a "cable shot" or two. On my Eso stack, I dropped the Audioquest Firebird 48 HDMI about a year ago and moved (for Eso ES-LINK data in the stack) to TUBULUS CONCENTUS HDMI which was a substantial upgrade.20220812_162831.jpg20220111_061818.jpg20220111_061908.jpg20211230_200232.jpg

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That's a beautiful system. Cost what I paid for my house, and then some, tho real estate was kinder in 96. Was there a specific synergy you hear with Esoteric and Legacy over other brands?

Thank you very much for the kind words.

One of the strengths of Legacy is that they sound damned good with a long list of amps and preamps, Solid State Class A or AB, ICEedge next generation digital, tube, and SET tube.

The combination of this generation of Esoteric seems perfect to me, and I've not found any limits.

The Legacy convey every bit of the excellence and range engineered into the Esoteric gear, and this combo is the most musical, wide musical (genre) range combination I have yet owned.

A couple of areas where the Esoteric's are both a musical and performance match for the Legacy (in this case VALOR) is that Bill
has always found a way to engineer absolutely full-range speakers with high efficiency that excel equally well in the nether regions
of sub-bass and bass while not compromising in midrange and treble range handling and beauty. The amps he uses internally are
also extremely fast and accurate for the bass, sub-bass. The Esoteric amps and pre-amp in particular pair with this combination very well
in that they are equally fast and accurate, rock solid grip (damping factor of 1000) and they have negligible amounts of THD
and excellent Signal to Noise performance. With Legacy's being highly efficient speakers (VALOR is 100.5 dB (2.83V@1m)),
and with their other attributes, they are unforgiving in that they will show any deficiencies amps and pre-amp combos.

This combinations comes off as having few if any weaknesses.

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