OK. The following are my listening habits. I mostly will be using the system in a 5.1 configuration with either musical Blue Ray's or movies, along with watching satelite Direct TV. I would say around 50% music (Blue Ray DVD) and 50% TV and movies. I will not be using it as a two channel system, maybe rarely. I listen to a variety of music. I like Phil Collins, Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, Phantom of the Opera, and absolutely LOVE all music from the 80's, such as: REO Speedwagon, Journey, Foreigner, etc.. One thing that you have all pointed out that I noticed. I purchased the Time Life Collection of around 8 CD's with mostly music from the 80's, and the recording sounds horrible with mostly any speaker. They said that the songs were digitally remastered, which I was under the impression would sound much better than when originally recorded, but that was not the case at all.
So what you all are saying is that accurate speakers do not reproduce rock music well? I wish that the FR charts were available for the newly released/improved Legacy speakers. Is a speaker with generally more woofers/midrange better/sound better than one with fewer drivers? I know that Legacy likes to use more/larger drivers than some other brands. For instance, the Legacy Signature SE has two 10-inch woofers, one 7-inch midrange, and the new dual air motion tweeter (one tweeter being 4 inches and the other one inch tweeter for super high frequencies). On the other hand, the MA GX 300 tower (largest tower in the GX line), only has two 6 1/2-inch woofers, a 4-inch midrange), and the ribbon tweeter. I know that cabinet design along with crossover points make difference in the sound reproduction. I did not get a chance to play the Time Life Recordings with the MA's (as we played Blue Ray), but did with the Legacy as those were auditioned in two channel mode. The Time Life recording did not sound good with the Legacy. Does this mean that those speakers were accurate? Who knows. The Legacy's were in a large bright waiting room, and not in the audition treated. We moved them in to a dedicated audio room that they perform all of the auditions, played another recording, and they sounded night and day compared to the other room with the Time Life recording. Also, the speakers were around 4 to 5 feet from the back wall and around the same from the side walls, which quite frankly is probably too far in either direction, and would most likely sound better with closer boundaries.