I've never heard the LFT so I can't address that speaker but as far as Maggie's go I've never had a problem with fine detail placement with the sound stage or imaging. I've owned both the 1.7i and now the 3.7i. If anything I find the exact opposite to be true. Maybe your LRS has not had enough playing time to be fully broken in or the room placement needs some adjustments.
question for Eminent Technology lft-8c and panel speaker owners
Hi all, I am interested on buying an Eminent Technology lft-8c, I use my speakers for all purposes listening to music and also watching movies and series.
I had a pair of Musician Knight speakers (bookshelves) and I also had a few months with a pair of Magnepan LRS plus and I noticed that the small echoes and positioning clues get a little lost on the Magnepan or you have to play a lot of attention to get those details, the soundstage is great but when I come back to my box bookshelf speakers I notice immediatly all the details I am missing.
This is even more noticable when using headpones somethings I could be watching a video with background music and it sounds very clearly on the headphones and when I try to listen to the same video on the LRS it is like I turn on noise canceling and I listen mostly to the voice of the people on the video and the background music gets almost lost.
Are this details lost a drawback of the panel speakers and their presentation with that huge soundstage or is it only a drawback/limitation of the Magnepan?
Have you had this "issue" with the Eminent Technology lft-8c?
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ET LFT-8b owner here for four years and I upgraded to 8c last November. Planar dipoles need room to breathe. I have them 7 ft away from front wall. If you haven't already, move the Maggies out into the room. If the 'detail lost ' still persists, then maybe it is the an issue with the LRS. For the ET 's with the proper placement, soundstage and detail retrieval are the speakers' strong suit. NO ISSUES AT ALL! I have read opinions from this forum that rate the LFT 8b with the Maggies 3.7, a few steps up from the LRS. The 8c is a whole other animal. I am still learning to optimize the speakers to my room with the added DSP inputs. There is a thread on the audiokarma .org forum that is very useful from 8s onwers, fyi. |
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