Hello all.
From what I can tell my last post on this forum was four years ago. Wow, time flies! I have enjoyed my set up so much I really haven't been looking much into upgrading. Every now and again I pop my head in here to see what was going on.
Well about 2 weeks ago I had a little peek and saw the Sierra-1s in three new finishes. I said, "Hey honey, take a look at these..." She said, "Wow those are nice."
I had been on the fence about selling my motorcycle to pay off on a house that we have not been living in but been for sale for almost a year. (Stinks paying two mortgages!) I thought, well maybe I could soften the blow by buying myself a little something AND paying on the house. Two birds one motorcycle sale.
Well, the bike sold three days after I put it up for sale and I bought LFR Sierra's in Espresso and an Emotiva XPA-3 to power them.
Wow, first off I got the amp last Friday and hooked it up to my existing system and WOW is that thing is A-mazing! I will do a review on it later, but if anyone is thinking if they want to get into separate amps...DO IT. It shook the dust of my system and really made it sing.
Well, back to this thread. I loved the look of the espresso color online but a word to the wise, they are darker in person. The pictures online are either of the speaker in direct/near direct sun or photographed with the use of artificial flash photography. This makes it easier to see the grain of the bamboo, which I like, but inside even with a bright theater room I have a very hard time seeing that grain. They still are a VERY attractive color and its very evident that the quality of finish is excellent.
Another interest of mine is woodworking and I love grain, texture and depth of wood finishes. I most likely will keep them, but I wanted others to know they are (at least the ones I received) darker than what appears online. From six feet away they look like a dark brown lacquer with a high gloss polyurethane.
Thanks for your time.