This is fun!
I've spent a few hours listening to a bunch of my regular demo material, and the early impressions are exactly where you'd figure they'd be. The sheer dynamic capbility of these speakers on well recorded material can really throw you if you're not prepared. I was listening to a Jazz trio where the song starts off very soft, so I turned it up. When the drum joins in a few bars later....
WOW!
I reached for the volume button very quickly.
There are tradeoffs, that much is obvious. The speed of the bass (except for the very lowest octave or so) on the LS-6'es is incredible and you get spoiled by it.....
.....but the OB bass on the Super V's..... oh my! What has been said is so true. FAR less room loading even at high volumes. It leads to much clearer mid-range. Vocals on some songs by artists who tend to mumble and are hard to understand are now very clear (examples so far are Lyle Lovett's Joshua Judges Ruth and Rickie Lee Jones Chuck E's in Love CD's) everything is soooooooo much easier to hear.
One of the other things that is immeditely different with the Super V's is when an instrument has reverb added. It's in a different league. i wish I could describe it - you really need to experience the depth that it can add.
I'll get back at some point with more detailed impressions, but I'm still making lots of adjustments (which is getting tough to do because there is just too much stuff in the room - and I know that's holding back the performance, but it is what it is right now).
A thought struck me while I was listening to Perter Gabriel's "Security" SACD "Lay your hands on me" at a fairly good volume: What if I run the speaker wires from my amp to the LS-6'es instead of the upper drivers of the Super V's while the servo amps/OB woofers are still hooked up.....
......much experimentation ahead
