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Legacy Audio AERIS: RMAF/listening impressions?

I made a trip to Legacy this past week to hear this speaker in a non-show environment which would also afford more time to listen and hear music that I took with me. I don't see alot in the way of RMAF postings here as yet and would like to hear people's impressions of this speaker as I thought it an amazing speaker with huge potential. I've started a section on my system thread for anyone that wants to add material or please put your thoughts and impressions here. Thanks!
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cobraman81061
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Zephyr Glad to here how happy you are right out of the box .Was wondering if the first thing you notice right away was how clean the new amt is? Send us along some new pics when you can



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zephyr24069 OP
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Will do once i get the area re-organized and grab a new flashgun. The AMIT is very clean and "right" when it comes to how it renders each frequency. The midrange driver is another new star in the Legacy family; same comment for that. Tonal color and ambients are amazing right OOTB. The other thing which hit me hard right away is how the speaker energizes the entire room and the soundfield wrapped around me even though this is only 2-channel. Another key improvement is from the open baffle top-end of the speaker; the omni-directional radiating pattern does wonders for image depth, precision, etc.....overall, absolutely AMAZING first 2 days!!!
tms0425
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I just checked the pics I took that day and I'm pretty sure yours are the ones Bill demo'd for me. They were quite stunning looking and sounded fantastic, especially with the tuning demo he did on the spot. Enjoy!
ctsooner
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Very cool. congrats on the purchase and I wish you nothing but fun listening. I really do think that mid/high unit is one of the best I've heard
roxito
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I visited the LA room at the California Audio show. I was at first drawn into their room by the really beautiful sound of a lovely song (i think it was Eva Cassidy / What a wonderful world) they were playing. So I sat and listened and really enjoyed it.

Then i requested him to play a track from a CD that i had brought along.. Love's Divine (Seal). I was using this track as a reference for comparing rooms that impressed me initially. As this track unfolded, it became evident that the bass was fairly (disappointingly!) weak ... this was not being exposed by the track being played originally. I was stunned to see such huge drivers delivering such weak bass. Neither punch nor depth in the bass.

If I recall correctly they were using tube amps... so it could very well have been that the amps were really the reason for the weak bass.
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