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Thanks to the heads up by Audiophile Junkie!Best speakers I've ever heard. Quite a bit better than the Magnepan 30.7's I heard last year.
Very wide soundstage. Very dynamic, literally like you were in the jazz club. Ella and Louis were there. The sweet spot was wider than I've experienced before, and even as you got off axis you could still hear the placements almost until you reached a speaker. Bass was impactful and well defined. I listened to 'Fanfare for the Common Man' and the drums were "real".
Are they 10X better than anything else I've heard? No. Are they worth $250,000 just for the speakers? No.
If I had the bucks to buy them and not miss a beat? YOU BET!
Edits: 11/19/20Follow Ups:
They are pretty awesome speakers if you get them to work in your room. At one audio show I ranked them bottom 5. At the next show they ranked number 1.
Looks are subjective but I like them.
One thing to note that I was advised about. At shows and dealers - you are only listening for a relatively short period of time and folks tell me that they excel when played at fairly loud levels. At low levels they are not as good (again what people and owners tell me). I have generally only heard them fairly loud.
Even if this were true - it would not matter depending on the type of listener the person is. If you are the sort that listens for 1-2 hours every day this will probably be fine - if you listen for 8 hours maybe not so fine.
As for money/value - Jeff Bezos makes more than $250,000 every time he takes a wee. There are a lot more people out there who can drop $250,000 like you or I would buy a soda from a vending machine than people realize. MBL has no interest in plebeians like us.
Jeff makes about $223,000 per minute. If he could stretch his wiz to 2.5 minutes he could buy the entire $558,000 system.
Edits: 11/23/20
they seem to have no loudness level limitation with the full MBL system. i asked a dealer which amps he would suggest and he replied that the Parasound monoblocks would do nicely. at the time, the big D'Agostinos didn't exist but then the price difference with the Paras is huge.
the 101s would be more than adequate for me and had i the means, i would have them.
...regards...tr
I don't think I could listen to music in this room.
It's kind of sterile looking, but I'm sure I could force myself to live with it :)
I've heard others rave about MBL equipment and synergy.. I would love to hear and experience such a setup.. To those who can afford such extravagant systems... Enjoy !
I hope the owner of that system gets as much joy as I do with my humble setup..
Other than that, too much bling.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...
"The earlier a reflection arrives the more it contributes to masking the direct sound." - Dr. David Griesinger
Duke
Me being a dealer makes you leery?? It gets worse... I'm a manufacturer too.
under threat of emanate death OR provided large infusions of cash.
After all, at a certain point you could just close your eyes, listen to the music and not have to see that atrocious shit.
Bet there's a comfy chair there somewhere, too.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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'a comfy chair there somewhere'
it's off camera behind the obelisk occupied by a giant space faring fetus
so you'll just have to stand over there next to HAL ...
I know what you mean, total eye candy.
I'm with you. This is wretched excess on an extreme level.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. - Albert Einstein
Can someone explain what the heck does Sensitivity: 88dB/2.8V/2pi means? This is how MBL specifies the speaker spec, and I suspect that when described in actual standard speaker terms, it will be much lower than "88dB."
Which is why MBL speakers are always showed/used with those huge MBL coffin amps. 101 X is also 2 Ohm load, so using "other amps" may not really be an option IMO.
I'll take a guess at this2pi, as in radians, is equal to 360 degrees. So 88dB at 2.8V omnidirectional.
Edits: 11/22/20
If I'm not wrong, a speaker system that is 88dB sensitive @ 2Pi would boast higher sensitivity in a home environment, not lower
I was surprised at how BIG they were. There's an audio store in Scottsdale that carries them. Along with MLB's amps. They're also tremendous and gold plated units. At about a Mil for the entire setup, there was NO need for the sales rep to even turn them on.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. - Albert Einstein
My wife was with me and thought they were cool looking. She wasn't crazy about the small coffin amps. I'd probably go with different amps anyways.
And she listened, moved around to hear them in different locations. All good on the WAF Front.
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