Legacy Aeris Review
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- Page 2 “I like the Whispers better”. Until now. The Aeris bristles with technology such that it would take encyclopedic length to go in depth with it. Each speaker consists of six drivers in a 4.5 way design.
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Page 3: About The Designer
Bill Duddleston is a rather soft-spoken guy, one not given to brash talk, braggadocio or hyperbole. It was with some surprise he murmured to me that he thought his new Aeris might sound a little better than the Whispers. But wait. The Whisper is much bigger and more expensive than the Aeris. - Page 4 They have come a long way in forty years and are now used in several speakers. Bill said he owns literally every model ever made and has studied them at great length. The ones in the Aeris are not off-the-rack models, but ones he has designed and fabricated himself.
- Page 5 64 foot rank in the pedal section. Capable of 6 Hz. Yes, that means there are pipe that are actually 64' tall. The Aeris is rated to go down to 16Hz. You don’t hear it,...
- Page 6 I have several recordings of the organ including the video of myself, but I called up the “Magic!” cd of Peter Conte playing the Wanamaker. The paintings on the wall began to vibrate noisily and the chair I was sitting in felt like one of those vibrating chairs you see in Sharper Image. And this was at moderate volume.
- Page 7 Speakers like those make me feel like I’m hearing a lecture about the music instead of the music itself. This was not so with the Aeris. It was actually a pleasure just to listen to a tone sweep from the bottom of human listening range to the top. Almost flawless – just one continuous sweep with no suck outs or over modulations, bumps or humps.
- Page 8 side walls, custom time alighment and EQ, the "Wavelauncher" as Bill calls it is very much a plus, not a minus. He goes on to explain, “Modal adjustments at low frequencies can greatly improve the weight of a system while eliminating ‘room boom’. Parametric amplitude correction assures that the left and right loudspeakers appear nearly identical to the listener.
- Page 9 Indiana. Here's a graph of the Aeris in my room before and after optimization. Bear in mind that these curves are a snapshot of a graph that continually changes and fluctuates because pink noise is random.
- Page 10 As I said earlier, it took some time for the Aeris to settle in, but once they did it was as if a whole new universe opened up, a universe full of new possibilities and discoveries. Perhaps you can tell I’m very enthused about these speakers, but believe me, I’m holding back on my verbiage.
- Page 11 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.
- Page 12 That's really what high-end stereo is supposed to do, isn't it? Transport us, give us the illusion of something real, of being there? The Aeris does. The Legacy Aeris speaker system easily attains the elite level of our Maximum Mojo Award.
- Page 13 Six-driver, 4.5-way loudspeaker with integral woofer amplification and DSP wavelauncher correction hardware Tweeter: Dual Air Motion Transformer System (one 4" AMT tweeter, 1" AMT super-tweeter) Midrange: 8" titanium-encrusted, accordion-edge Midwoofer: 10" accordion-edge Subwoofer: Two 12" spun-aluminum diaphragm with cast frame, each with its own 500-watt ICE amp Frequency response : 16Hz–30k (+/-2dB) impedance: 4 ohms...