I bought my pair in "golden oak" about 6 months ago after owning Ty's little Reference Monitors for the previous 6 months. The LMs need a good 200 hours of break in time using wide range and dynamic music at fairly high volume levels. As they are rear ported they like a bit of room behind them. Their stands are great...I filled mine with clay-based kitty litter to good effect. In my regularly dimensioned basement listening room they need about 2' behind them; in my family room, where I can put them on a much longer wall, they work surprisingly well with only about 8" behind them. I've powered them with a Sim Audio I-5 integrated with great success, very rarely sensing any sign of hitting the amp's limits. Set up in my other system they are powered by a McCormack DNA 125 fed directly from a Marantz SA-14 CDP. There's power to spare. Both amps do a superb job, IMO. I am very impressed by the bass capabilities of the LMs which offer plenty of detail and impact that you can feel in your gut with good source material, i. e. - I've heard/felt the almost subteranean sounds of a subway on DVDs. No way would I screw things up with a subwoofer. The SEAS Millenium tweeter is the best dynamic tweeter I've yet heard, providing a fineness of resolution that is, to me, remarkable yet never artificially bright or "high fi" sounding. On the whole I consider the LMs truly the most "do it all" speakers at anything near their price range and ones which I expect to hang on to for a long, long time.
