LS3/5A Monitor Loudspeakers

The LS3/5A are intended for near field use. Sit close to them in a five or six foot equilateral triangle and the sound of the room will be less noticeable, provided you sit away from the rear and side walls. The low frequencies in a mini-monitor will need some boundary reinforcement and favourable room dimensions. The longest diagonals will set the lowest frequencies and the peaks/dips you'd hear, assuming the driver (i.e. the woofer) can deliver it from the cabinet.

Physically correcting room acoustics is quite challenging, it generally takes a lot more than sticking up some foam panels. Evening out the room modes (frequencies emphasised by the room dimensions) can be challenging and not fixed by four inches of Rockwool. Plus most of us will be listening to our music in lounge or other living space, and chatting in a fully treated room is strange!

Anyway I haven't heard the product described above. My past scepticism about electrically fixing acoustic/time domain problems has been tempered by using Audyssey on AV amps. It does a really good job of evening out the bass and improving clarity of the mid and high frequencies.

Hi Graham, yes, when I bought those kits, I was aware that the woofers, tweeters and crossovers were different to the V2 retail version but I figured that the performance wouldn't be far off the V2 as LS3/5A is a performance specification. The woofers were described as Monacor drivers and I think they said the tweeters were "Scanspeak"??

My LS3/5A are, by no means, poor performers. From the Proprius, they are very good but like all small speaker units, there are limitations to their bass capabilities. I'm a very fussy listener when it comes to transducers being very faithful to the original recording. My LS3/5As do not do your Proprius full justice as such a small speaker won't provide full-frequency reproduction.

Whilst I'm happy to sell my LS3/5A, I will be keeping your Proprius as testing apparatus in my search for full-frequency reproduction from speakers. These amps are all a music lover like myself needs to pair with some worthy monitors.

For now, I have a Solo ULDE and HD540II, which is good enough for me.

I will add that my LS3/5A perform noticably better under my new bunk bed than they did when I just had a normal bed in the room. The bunk adds irregularity to the small room and is just the kind of dispersion "clutter" that I needed to bring down upper bass accentuation.