You know, that's a good point. The L7's I heard were being powered by an Adcom GFA-555II I was looking to buy to fill in for a Marantz 510M I was having checked out. It just so happened the dude had a room full of gear and didn't seem to mind BS'ing with me about it all. Told him I heard lots and lots of good stuff about the L7's (He tried to take that as an opportunity to sell those too..) Anyway, I remember listening and thinking either the amp or those speakers sounded terrible. His source and preamp were probably the issue. But at the time I thought that if it was the amp, meh, I'll run it until I get the Marantz back and then dump the Adcom. Funny, because I ended up dumping the Marantz after a shootout with the Adcom So yeah, probably just need to hear a set of L7's driven by gear like mine.