FEBRUARY 2020 MACWORLD 109The Legend
L100 are
handsome, but
not remarkable
in appearance.Upon said listening, I did begin to
suspect I might be shooting a tad low in
my financial estimates, which leads me to...
SOUND
The L100 sound very, very good, although
again—the usual caveat about differing
tastes. I used a NAD M10 (go.macworld.
com/nm10) streaming amplifier (rated to
produce 100 watts continuous into 4
ohms) to drive the speakers, and the
result was distortion-free to my ears from
barely audible to 100. The sound color
didn’t vary unduly with loudness, though
there was what I like to call the normal
“graying” or lessening of apparent
upper frequency reproduction at higher
volumes, which is normal and varies by
listener and environment.
What particularly impressed me about
the L100, and the reason I liked them so
much (secret revealed!), was their bass
reproduction. With no additional EQ, it was
round and suitably punchy without being
overly in your face. Absolutely dead-on for
my tastes, but there’s more there via EQ if
you want it.
Apparently, the
aforementioned
bass dispersion
panel works quite
nicely.
I’ve never
heard a pair of
speakers more
well-tuned for my
tastes out of the
box. I never felt any
compulsion to hit
up the M10’s EQThe L100
speakers can
handle up to
160 watts per
channel.