Yeah I’d definitely choose to have c £26k speakers and DIY the amps and digital accordingly.
Oh well, I guess it needs £40k speakers then!
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My experience of them exactly, really easy to live with but don’t enjoy being pushed beyind their limits.
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I find with lots and lots of power behind them, they can go pretty darn loud, but they do harden up a little and become a bit nasal and shouty.
No idea what I’ll be considering next. I don’t have horn problems like you guys 
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Ls5/8 or ls5/9 depending on space? Modern graham audio versions?
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If there are electrolytic capacitors in the crossovers, you might be shocked at the improvements that replacing them will bring.
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Don’t be giving him (or me) ideas, the whole mindset of this forum is BIG and spendy speakers 
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I did think about opening them up for a refresh
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Yes the mad LS5/8 are definitely on the list
How are your JBLs?
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One could ask, how are yours ? 
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Id also love to hear a pair of some of the more eccentric designs
Snug and waiting patiently in the outbuilding/ future listening bar.
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Sounds like a highly commendable plan 
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Plan A - retire and move by the sea and open a small listening bar/ kitchen
Plan B - retire and create a small listening bar/ kitchen here
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I have a pair (sort of) here at the moment. The amps don’t seem to work or I can’t get them wired up correctly. They were built to spec by a bbc engineer but have crimson electric amplifiers with the crossovers instead of the quad. not sure if it was a bbc thing or a diy bit he did on the side. Plan was to try and build some passive crossovers for them. But that was a year or so back. I need to drag them out and take another look.
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Yeah these are fully passive. But I do recall the old school ones with the slotted fronts and the quad amps.
Currently silent! Am reconfiguring electronics and need different wires to allow everything to work.
4-way active is the plan with a couple of other tweaks. Glacial progress as usual though.
The dog’s bollocks, actually. When I went from Solid State to Valves, I did wonder if I would lose out on volume and fun.
This fear was unfounded. A solo- actually not quite as Lord Boots is here- listening session at FTN levels- is proof.
This is so much fun- it really doesn’t matter what is thrown it’s way- it just gets on with playback.
Valves. When objectivity and subjectivity get together and have a bloody good time! 
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