the best there is. I have to tell you, after spending a lot of time with these fine instruments, I
cannot disagree with him.
Let me give you an example of the kind of “detail” I heard. Bear in mind that I like to listen not
only to the music, but the work of the engineer/producer as well. There’s a cut from a Celtic
Woman CD where the Celtic Woman was singing as she played the harp. Yes, you could hear her
fingernails on the strings and the wonderful resonance of the harp. Her voice was mesmerizing. But
at one point at the end of a vocal phrase, she stops and there’s a moment of silence. The harp
stops, too. There’s a couple of ways to “stop” or damp a harp, usually with your hands. But this
time, for the first time, it was very obvious that the harp was silenced electronically by use of a
fader. The engineer just pulled it down. I wasn’t even listening for that – it was just “there” as
evident as can be. Little things like that happened a lot. Lyrics were easy to understand. Even Joe
Cocker.
Let me try to drive this home one more time: Again, I never felt as if I was listening TO a speaker,
it was completely the other way around; the speakers were singing, playing, strumming, thumping
to me! Instead of me “taking” entertainment from them like you would a TV, it was they who
were giving to me. They were doing all the work. Never for a moment did I want to lean forward or
squint my eyes or whatever it takes to hear something a little better.
It was effortless listening.
The Legacy is simply the finest loudspeaker system I’ve had the privilege of hearing. I played
thousands of different tracks through them and found not a missed nuance anywhere. Very few
people have heard bass presented the way the Aeris can. You won’t hear me saying in any future
reviews, “these speakers have limited low end, but I could live with it”. Nuh uh. Now that I’ve
lived with low end so deep, so musical and so accurate, there’s no going back. For me, they have
established a completely new level of musical enjoyment. And by the way, THIS pair isn’t going
back either. They will be my true reference for some time. If you are looking for speakers
anywhere near this price, especially higher, listen to these first in your room if you can. I heard
them at two shows and was impressed, but the degree of difference in my room after they settled
in was phenominal.
There are lots of speakers that sound very hi-fi, an audiophile’s dream. These are something very
different. If you know and appreciate what real music sounds like – any kind of music – you should
love these.
Never, ever once did the Aeris make an unmusical sound. Perhaps most importantly, it’s the way
they made us feel. They impart something that has been quietly lacking in every other speaker;
call it satisfaction, call it fulfillment, consummation or just plain joy, but they never left us
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