Yes Lawrence.
I have come to the end of my Hifi journey and learnt a lot over the past 50 years of it.
However terms like flawed winds me up in instances like this.
If A maker wants to improve a design they should launch a new one and sell its benefits and not try and hide behind a proven popular design which they cannot emulate. Companies like Harbreth, Spendor and Falcon themselves have launched variants of the ls3/5a design and sold them successfully on their merits and not said they are better versions of a proven and liked design. Falcon came from a different angle and tried to reproduce the original as far as possible in terms of their licensed ls3/5a.
Incidentally anybody who went to the Bristol show may have heard/Seen their new approach to this speaker with Dsp added to the original - not the same but an alternative in development and very nice for my ears.
And so my rant ends.
Mel