Loved EL&P... and Lucky Man was my fav track by them...

During one of my pilgrimages with a couple college buds to the original Cleveland Audio Craft on Carnegie, there was a man in their "high-end" room spinning Lucky Man on a Thorens/SME rig thru their McIntosh separates to various speakers pairs... and he was pushing them.

He finally settled on a pair of AR's... 3a's IRRC... and got really aggressive. Pulled the grills off (naked speakers did sound better back them) and started repeatedly replaying the instrumental play-out at the end of the track. In that play-out there's a lot in interesting stuff including flanged drum work, but the main attraction is Emerson's synth work.

At the 3:59 mark of the vid Gip posted you'll hear the synth really soar until it crashes back to earth at the 4:11 mark with one of the lowest notes recorded to that time. It rivaled the foot peddle under the end of the opening of

Finally the left AR's woofer started visibly deforming... damn near folded at one point. I he re-cued the section, verified the deformation and Then the man simply turned things down, replaced the grills, turned, smiled at us and walked out of the store. I turned to my friends and said, "So he wasn't an employee?"

FYI... a lot of better speakers have been built over the years, but 3a's are still worth owning.

WSS