Legacy Focus XD - will I ever upgrade?

I have reviewed several Legacy Audio speakers for Dagogo.com, if you care to read the reviews. Upgrading to higher models is worthwhile, as the performance changes dramatically. I owned the Focus HD, then the Focus SE, and went to the Whisper, finally doing some upgrades to transform it into the Whisper DSW Clarity Edition. 

I have not reviewed the Aeris, so I cannot speak about that first hand, but the leap from Focus SE to Whisper is enormous. The performance spectrum, even within a line of speakers, is much larger than you think. 

mikekollar, my ceiling height in the room is 7.5' and the dimensions are 13' x 23',  so unless your room has a very low ceiling it will work. If you look at my system images you can see that I do not adhere to the received wisdom that you cannot use oversize speakers. 

The holistic sound quality of larger (upper end) speakers is definitively superior to lower end models, and that is true generally no matter the brand. I

My Whisper DSW speakers were the first of its kind, a hybrid that can be run in 3 modes; Entirely passive iwth as few as two channels of amplificaiton and tri-wiring, or combination of passive midrange and treble with active bass using the Wavelet for bass, or fully active with Wavelet. Over the years I have varied between setups. You'll read about it in the articles I have done about the Whisper. 

Not surprised at that reviewer’s findings in regard to the Legacy i.V2 amp. Having worked with 2 vs. 4 channels of the i.V4 Ultra, I would not be without the two additonal channels for use with any speaker, from efficient to more difficult to drive. Big difference in perfomance with the extra two channels, which brings up the resolution and refinement without penalty. It’s such a large improvement that I would not even consider running only two channels on any setup when 4 are availalble. Why starve a system from the extra 600wpc? :)

My review of the i.V4 Ultra (in fact, I reviewed a pair of them, offering up to 8 channels of amplification, 4,800 total wpc into 8 Ohms - I put such things to good use) is at Dagogo.com, and I have to say that the Whisper with the Legacy XTREME XD Subs in such a setup (12 fifteen inch drivers altogether) is otherwordly in terms of dynamics. Scary capacity to pressurize the room even at low listening level. Some of the best sessions of detecting and appreciating LF in any system I have heard. That made the Focus seem like a bookshelf speaker in comparison.

Imo, putting another pair of speakers in for mains for HT would be a misstep. If I recall correctly, I used the Outlaw Audio’s (I don’t put big money into HT) pre outputs into the Wavelet for HT. Calibrate for level, and you’re set.