To all,
Thanks to everyone who has made sincere comments--and even the skeptics who wonder about the 'time' this product has taken, to come to market.
To have a product as was originally envisioned by the previous owners of DK Design (now a company which also offers my loudspeaker designs, having had the great fortune to work alongside the magic of John Tucker, my VP of Operations, R&D), in which the speaker had a passive 48 db per octave crossover, (basically a brick wall crossover) would have made for over about the size of a BUICK!! LOL!!
So we were forced to start over, making the crossover passive, not active, with shallower slopes--though 2nd and 3rd order, with crossover points at 400Hz and 2K, oddly the same as on my LSA2's.
This was just kismet, serendipity, perhaps as the response of the drivers, which are quite remarkable, lended themselves to this slope in an almost perfect manner.
The results of our work have surpassed all my expectations sonically--the cabinet is virtually invisible sonically--which makes for a soundstage which seems boundless--not having the typical 'noises' one associates with wooden cabinets.
The public will ultimately decide if these are good to great speakers--so I won't go there for now. But I must say to everyone: I realize that our asking price is very high, but if you knew how much we pay for the parts/cabinets/CNC machining, you would probably think that this is an excersize in audio fantasy. The monies are not as important as the result--we are 'dreamers' at LSA and hope that the small profit we make on these can be made worthwhile by the enjoyment of the owners. If that sounds corny or silly, I apologize--but this is truly a lifelong dream of mine--I freely admit to this being more an exercise in expertise than profitability.
You get to make the decision as always, I can only put it out there for you to love or not.
Best to all who are open minded, and apologies to those who had to wait so long.
Larry R. Staples
LSA Group
Owner
