Hi Mike, I can't really comment on it for home theater with the ability to bypass, but I do remember a disusion some time ago on here about that subject. You may elect to email Brice Auxier at Legacy for more specific and accurate information.
Legacy Focus XD - will I ever upgrade?
When I finally decided one day that my college days were really over and it was time to get rid of the K-Horn knock offs and get serious, I got all new equipment and paired it all up with some nice B and W 702 S2 Speakers. Two years later I upgraded to my current Legacy Focus XD speakers. I absolutely love them, never tire of them and am satisfied with these being my last speakers..... BUT, just for fun, thought I would ask if anyone in the same position ever upgraded from the Focus to the Aeris and was it an incremental upgrade or an exponential upgrade (like from my B and W’s to the Focus XD)....... Just a theoretical question mind you. (the focus is the only Legacy speaker I have ever heard other than the Signature SE which led me to the Focus)
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Thanks, will do. I would rather just have the wavelet as my pre amp but if there is no home theater bypass or similar, then the wavelet may have to become a device strictly used for its functionality for room correction, EQ, DAC, Punch etc and completely skip its pre amp capabilities which would be a shame.... almost pointless maybe as I assume I would also be walking away from its crossover capabilities also. That might require a whole different setup but with the Emotiva pre amp I can not only have HT bypass, I could also run the wavelet functions into a dedicated input on the pre amp, or, run it throught the pre amp "external processor loop"...... aargh, gets messy. Seems silly to spend 5k and NOT use something like that to the fullest, but what to do..... it still all needs to be dual purpose (home theater and 2 channel) unless i were to purchase cheaper smaller towers for HT and put them next to the Lagacy’s. Again, not optimal at all. |
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.
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Right now, I am using the pre outs from a Yamaha AV Receiver into the emotiva pre amp with home theater bypass on. Then when switching to 2 channel audio, I turn off HT bypass which returns all controls to the pre amp where I have my streamer hooked up to a pre amp input and from there, on to the power amp and speakers. Would wavelet accomodate a similar if not true HT bypass function. Whats great about the HT bypass circuitry is that it turns off all functionality of the pre amp circuitry (including volume) and just passes the signal on to the power amp which eliminates having to level or balance volume between mains and surrounds as volume is 100% controlled by the AV receiver in HT bypass mode. (I should mention that I have these Focus XD speakers bi - amped as the internal power amp in thr speakers is driving the woofers) |
Bringing this back up as I wonder if @douglas_schroeder or others have any insight regarding the AMT tweeter differences in the Focus SE V1 vs the current AMT setup? The Focus HD brought across the board differences in drivers, compared to earlier versions of the Focus. The current Focus SE (and other models) have a later version of the AMT tweeter as compared to Focus HD and the "V1" version of the Focus SE. I haven’t found commentary from Bill Duddleston (or others) about that progression and wondering what the feedback is on the first version of that AMT setup vs the current version. |
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