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Completely agree. The LS50's would crumble at very high volumes - bass and treble became a smear of shrill sound - very disappointing to my ears...
Picked up the KEF LS50 Wireless today. Damn... I had the KEF Reference 1 speakers before down sizing and these are not too shabby by comparison....
Thanks for the feedback. The Riva Festival speaker looks pretty compelling. (Ack, how do you insert quotes in this forum software... :-\ )...
Had a Devialet Phantom setup and unfortunately one of them went bang during some moderate but not strenuous bass activity. Devialet support...
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