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I just re-read your post. The part about your sofa about a foot from your rear wall set off alarm bells. With loudspeakers as coherent as ML ESL's, specular reflections from the wall behind you can really do a number on imaging. I know this well from experience. What I would try is heavy...

Thanks for these interesting links, JonFo. The Sanders white paper very well explains the limitations of using tubes to drive speakers with abusively low and variable impedances like the CLS II with tubes. I followed his link to the Audio Amateur article describing his direct coupled ESL amp...

Is the MC257 a solid state amp with an autotransformer output? If so, you should use the lowest tap for the CLSII's. Their impedance is particularly brutal. I can't imagine 250 watts being insufficient, or that that's the real problem. Or else you like to listen at levels far higher than I...

From a classic Monty Python skit. A man (I believe it's John Cleese) walks into a pet store wanting to buy a cat. The pet store owner (probably Michael Palin) offers instead that he has a lovely terrier. He subsequently offers to modify the terrier to order. At one point he calls to his back...

Kind of like doing a budgie job on a terrier. But agreed, anything beats dumping the beautiful casework into the landfill. My own inclination would be to attempt to build my own ESL panels. But that's just me, and would be a bigger project. There's an ESL builder who is occasionally on this...

Yes this looks like it would do the trick. It has very complete specs (though I had to use the magnifier applet to actually be able to read them). Good for 500,000 switches at 12A resistive (a power transformer feeding a filter bank is not strictly resistive, but close enough). It seems...

In order to get balanced ins with Odyssey, you have to go to the Stratos line, which is what I was considering. I haven't looked at the Web site in a while but I believe those were rated into 2 ohms. I have a home made 12 volt triggered power switch with a relay rated at 15A AC, but I was...

I seriously considered Odyssey before a used pair of Parasound JC-1 monoblocks became available to me. TAS has given them several favorable write-ups, suggesting that while you can spend more money on amps you don't really need to (something I can well relate to. New JC-1+'s are too rich for...

If you're that curious, see if you can borrow one. But all tube amplifiers are not the same, any more than all amplifiers are the same. If you have an amp you're happy with now, I would be inclined to keep it. Don't go chasing some abstraction of "tube amplifier" people are raving about...

David Manley, in his "Vacuum Tube Logic Book", boasts of the quality of his bifilar wound OTL's. The OTL is the Achilles Heel of a classic tube power amp, so maybe his special transformers help. Paul McGowan, the designer of the BHK-250, is not a fan of tube outputs, but likes them hybridized...

It's true that what speakers you like and what amp you like to power them with is ultimately a subjective thing. But they are governed by some objective principles of physics. One of them is that Martin Logan ESL's--particularly the full range models--have impedance curves whose magnitudes dip...

I suspect a large number of audio fanatics are single.

It's not that you would ever be dumping full power at 20khz into your speakers (heaven help your ears if you did). It's that wide impedance swings driven by an amp with high effective impedance will result in roll-off of the highs. There is also the slight chance the low capacitive impedance...

If you truly got a good deal on ML's current flagship product I would have done exactly the same thing, and dealt with the room mismatch later. I think you can make them work, if not, save them for another living situation. The built-in ARC will at least help the bass.

Sounds a lot like the old LEDE (live end-dead end) concept. I started to read, but was interrupted by obnoxious pop-up requiring me to register.

never mind, just read the rest of your post.

Side wall reflections are less of an issue with ESL's, but not a non-issue--especially with ML's, with their 30 degree dispersion pattern. Have you considered heavy drapes--ideally drapes designed as acoustic absorbers-- across the glass doors that can be drawn for serious listening?

It has loving foster parents is all

I like "Orphaned Music Server", as a *** against Logitech, being the first of two companies they have devoured, then spit out (the second being Harmony). "Liberated Music Server" is clever, a take off on the "set your music free" splash screen".

Presumably the trailer has straps. Still, on their sides is the most stable position. Just be sure they are constrained from sliding around. They will fit along the 8' dimension, right? One woofer enclosure at one end and one at the other.