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RE: REVIEW: Merlin Music Inc. TSM-MXr Speakers

Posted by Bobsprit@aol.com (A) on October 27, 2010 at 04:43:22

In Reply to: RE: REVIEW: Merlin Music Inc. TSM-MXr Speakers posted by spindrifter on October 27, 2010 at 03:58:41:

The requirement for the sub is entirely dependent on the room and tastes of the listener. A few times I have left the sub off by mistake and barely noticed. But when listening to classical and some rock recordings I feel that a good sub makes a subtle but pleasing fill at the lower end.
As a good example, listening to Dark Side of the Moon last night had added depth with the MJ sub. Organ and piano also gain a sense of presence.

The "cult" element of the speakers is mainly because they are fairly hard to audition and not inexpensive. Years ago, when I first heard a pair of Revel M20's I thought, "Wow! That's one of the better monitor type speakers around." It would have been hard to accept that a so and so speaker would be so much better. So the main support for Merlin (unfortunately) is from owners who have fine tuned their systems and have realized most of what these speakers can do.

I'll admit it was actually a bit annoyed when Bobby at Merlin "suggested" that the small TSM's would be better than my Magnepan 1.6 pair in every way. But even the owner of the 3.6's agrees that these are superior.


Rob

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