Steven Tate
CEO Flat Forehead Soc.
I love vintage speakers, with all of their shortcomings, but I've never had the legendary L100's. I know there is a love/hate tug of war among speaker afficionados, and I'm not in either camp.....yet. These were very clean externally. They have the original wood grille frames and newer grill inserts - but not the sculptured foam ones. I hooked them up to my Marantz 2325 that usually drives Klipsch Fortes, and my first impression is....pretty good. I'm not blown away yet. No significant distortion at quite high volume levels playing classic rock. Bass is strong but pretty muddy to me. I haven't fiddled with the presence and brilliance controls yet to see what effect they have. I know a lot of people hate the crossovers in these. Some leave them alone, some rebuild them and some burn them in the fireplace and get some exotic new ones. So.....since I'm new to these historically popular speakers, just looking for opinions about them over all and particularly opinions about the crossovers -- leave them alone, recap or upgrade to exotic?
Steve
Steve