I'll agree with that Rob. My 20 watt Kel84 valve amp had no problems with the Aeon's. However an old Cambridge A1 amp was unstable. It would seem that not all amps were designed to be unconditionally stable into all speaker loads.
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I'll agree with that Rob. My 20 watt Kel84 valve amp had no problems with the Aeon's. However an old Cambridge A1 amp was unstable. It would seem that not all amps were designed to be unconditionally stable into all speaker loads.
I home demmed a pair of PrimaLuna 6 monoblocks (4x EL34 a channel) today - no go! Dynamically constrained and lacking in lo level rez. It didn't sound a happy amp at all. But it might be that I'm kinda spoiled by my MF A370 ....
The CLS do dip down to about 1 ohm in the treble ... :scratch:
Most Martin Logans do go to 1 ohm in the treble. I very nearly bought a Audio Research D250 for about £1500 once but it was just soooo HUUUUGE it wouldnt fit in my cabinet or anywhere else foro that matter. Also draws about the same power as a kettle. Hell of an amp though.
Yup - me neither! I bought 6 of those "egg carton" 15 inch square tiles. Just sitting around cluttering up the room. Just seemed to close in the sound. :doh: :scratch: Ah well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Primalsea
With the CLS firing down the length of the room, some curtains behind them (as with your setup) and with 5 feet or so space behind them, too, all is well with the world.
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BTW - I'm buying a BelCanto eVo4 class D power amp (350WPC :smoking:) to see how it goes with the CLS. :)
If you orientate the tiles the right way you can push 2 snuggly together. I tried to get them in the corners and on the wall but the master would have none of it.
If you have a dedicated room or no waf issues to overcome they will be of use elsewhere. I have read that a panel on the wall behind you help quite a lot with reflected sound.
Im sure I'll find a waf acceptable use for mine soon.
Well, it's been 3 months now, and I'm still pleased as punch with my ML stats! :smoking:
I've swirled them around again so they are now firing across the room's width - tbh they still sound great, even with only about 3 feet clearance behind them. And it's nice to have top notch sounds to go with my film DVDs again as the MLs now bracket my plasma screen once more.
The main reason for this update post, though, is for my new speaker stands for the MLs. On the ML user forum many folks say that the CLSs really benefit from being raised a bit. (Many diss the idea as well, of course! ;)). So I've been giving some thought as to how to try this out. There's some pics on the ML forum of some seriously tasty looking stands - and Sound Anchor make bespoke stands for them too if you throw sufficient numbers of $100 in their direction. Generally the stands seem to be about a foot high - tbh that would be pretty overpowering in my room, so I thought I'd cobble together some stands just a few inches high to try out the idea.
Enter 2 IKEA IVAR shelves and some beech wood 'granny knobs' :lol: from eBay. Total cost - £0 for the IVAR shelves as they were knocking around unused anyway (but only a few £ new from IKEA) and less than £8 for 8 of my gran's knobs. Oh, and a £fiver for some good wood glue to attach the knobs to the shelves. Painted them gloss black to go with the speakers and even The Wife reckons they look OK ....
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...CLSstands2.jpg
They raise the speakers by just over 3 inches.
And here's the overall appearance under the speakers. Quite neat, I reckon. :)
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...CLSstands1.jpg
And the effect on the sound? Very worthwhile - the word that came immediately to mind was 'pellucid'. ... and that's not a word that often just pops into my cranium!
pellucid
Adjective
Literary
1. transparent or translucent
2. extremely clear in style and meaning [Latin pellucidus]
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Translucent - yep, that's it. The midrange in particular has taken on a very nice free-flowing smooth transparency that is very easy to listen to indeed. "Articulate" is another word that springs to mind. The sound seems even freer of the speakers than before.
And with those spherical feet, the whole shebang is extremely easy to slide around for those inevitable positioning tweaks!
The stands are stayin'! :carrot:
Time for an update ....
The Martin Logan CLSiiz stats are gone and I've some noo babes who sing just for me ....
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...avierCary2.jpg
Leema Xaviers. I think of them as a 'grown up' Audio Physic Virgo II. :)
Actually, I play them with grille covers on ... unusually, they sound better that way, to me.
The Bel Canto eVo4 amp is temporarily retired, and here are my new amplification loves ....
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...Cary572sef.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...y572seside.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSCF4852.jpg
Cary 572-3 single ended monoblocks.
And very nice indeed they sound together. :smoking:
Oh, and while I'm mentioning these updates to my system, I should also say that a Melos PS-1 valve phonostage should be shipping Jerry-wards tomorrow! :)
Very nice Jerry! Which ouput valve is that? I take it it's one of those unique to Svetlana? Heard a DIY amp at our last meet with one of those Svets as output and it sounded superb.
Yup, it's a Svetlana 572-3. Pretty, innit!
The openness and musical detail are stunning. :)
What's the output?