BayouTiger

They were bought from a local flipper that got them from a gent that sold him all his gear to go see the world in an RV. They are truly immaculate, shockingly so. The pic here is not good, I need to get a better one. My setup in that room is fed from an ARC Ref75SE and LS27. Source was my Oppo105 fed by Roon as well as some SACD's. The phasing is fine. I also swapped speaker cables as the bananas on my Litzline cables were too large for the upright posts so I went back to my Audioquest Type 4's. The room is certainly a problem for low bass, I wasn't expecting them to be great there, but I thought they would be better than the 4x4.5" woofers in my Mantra60's which I have been using for a couple of years. Yes the DefTech's as bloated down low (depending on how you tune the subs), but I gave those to my sis when I got the System Audio's. One tweeter had been repaired/replaced by Richard (I saw the receipt). The drivers are functioning fine, but the mids are certainly really forward. I'm a newbie to these particular speakers and not really a vintage guy, but I'm not a newbie to the hobby. I do plan on moving them to another room and hooking them up on one of my other three (One ARC SP16/VS110 and another Rogue RP5/ARC D240, or maybe the new Peachtree Nova150 I just got. Part of the issue is that I am used to the System Audio house sound at this point. I ave three sets and they are about the most amazing units I have heard for midrange and high end clarity, almost to a fault. Their bottom is their weakness. Very tight and fast but not low as would be expected with 4x4.5" drivers. I keeps bringing me back to the crossovers.

I've checked and everything seems in order.

Been reading this thread with interest as I just picked up an absolutely pristine pair of L-1590's locally. One of the tweeters has been to Richard for rework just recently. I was told that the caps in the crossovers were measured to br near perfect, but not sure I trust that to be the case. I find the sound to be a bit lacking and the mids are almost intolerable as they are forward to the point of being harsh. Almost horn-like if that makes sense. The highs also seem weak and the bottom kinda thin. As everything I've read tells me they should be better than this nad compare to the AR9's which were my near favorites when I was shopping for my first nice pair back in 1980 ( I bought the Infinity RS1.5's ) to replace my beloved Epicures. Pretty much makes me question the integrity of the crossovers. My modern speakers were DefTech BP7002, and now I own three sets of very modern System Audios which are the complete opposite in presentation. Thinking of contacting Richard for his thoughts and possibly having him look at the mids and crossovers.