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Not unless you drive either amp or speakers into audible distortion.

If you're looking to reverse engineer the transfer function of the frequency shaping circuit in the CLS box then you need the impedance load of the bare panel. May be difficult to model or measure.

I need to pick a nit: CLS series may have dual step-ups for better matching to the load, and passive components for frequency response shaping (as well as the staggered panel sections for mechanical frequency response shaping) but it is not a "crossover". It all feeds the same two terminals of...

One thing I will say is, while I still don't believe "all amps sound the same", they sound more the same than they did then, due to tighter tolerance and higher quality components and better construction techniques. If you spend more than 4 figures on an amp today you are chasing very rapidly...

Those were sometimes called "rack systems", simulating individual components mounted in a rack, but they were all one piece. I am older than some of you guys. In the late 80's I was lucky enough to own a SOTA Star Sapphire TT, PS Audio pre, Adcom 555 power amp and Acoustat 1+1 speakers...

It's very subjective. Memory of sounds is not very reliable. And what sounds natural or convincing at first hearing may not stand up under more critical listening. But the more often you can convince yourself it sounds real the more fun it is. That's what this hobby boils down to. It has...

"J10"'s anecdote of mistaking Rubenstein's playing--I believe he was still living then--reproduced through the Maggies, with the real thing is one he has told before. One thing he mentions near the end of his tribute is the changing reviewing standards with the increasing predominance of "rock...

My pre-0wned JC-1's and CLS II's are a match made in heaven. I immediately noticed the full brilliance and dynamics of solo piano were reproduced. A new pair of JC-1+'s was too rich for my blood. But I don't see my self worrying about amps for the front L&R channels any time soon.

I take it you have no 240V appliances in your home. If you did, the two 120V branches would be "cross linked" in almost exactly the way you describe, if one branch went down. That's one reason all the 240V breakers in the panel are labeled "main disconnect". So what was done to mitigate your...

As is often said, if it looks too good to be true it probably is.

As someone who has been around the block a few times in electronics troubleshooting, when I see a plug-in chip with several functions related to the turning on of the HV that costs pennies to replace (even if ML hadn't provided it for free) that's pretty low hanging fruit. Glad it worked out...

If the LED is not illuminating that probably means your HV transformer is not necessarily at fault. The sensing circuit fires the triac, which bypasses R16 and gives you full bias supply. Otherwise, you're at reduced bias, for standby, which indeed would give you reduced output. The schematic...

Please do! Speaking of Eminent Technology and unfinished projects, I have an ET-2 linear tracking air bearing tonearm I got on eBay years ago. Bought a new mounting board for it from SOTA. I trashed my last Sumiko Blue Point Special playing with it, bough a new one for my main setup and a...

Absolutely! for full range stats--still my favorites--you need kilovolts on the stators , hence on the tube plates . With ML stators all you've got between you and lethal voltage/current capacity is the coating on the stators. I'm not concerned about that with the CLS's as the bias supply is...

Stereophile's John Atkinson alluded to magic and wizardry from Kansas when he reviewed the CLS umpteen years ago. To this day nobody else has come up with a true curved stat panel commercially. (The wizard was actually from Kansas, in Dorothy's dream and when she awoke from it).

I assume not since I'm considering doing the same thing. Nothing is going to get damaged. The worst thing that could happen is the sub gets a sum of speaker level L+R, which it sends to its internal LPF, plus the LFE. If the bass management of your AVR is working properly (and set properly)...

I may, but have not yet, set up Dirac on my new Emotiva XMC-2 but I agree that I wouldn't use DSP to fix ailing panels. That plus a nasty room suck-out is a sure way to blow up an amp. Just bite the bullet and buy them. On the other hand, I'm in a decent position to be able to afford new...

I'm game to resurrect this too. I will say that, contrary to C.A.P. , my Adcom 555 from the late 1980's did a decent job of driving them. The Cambridge Azure 840 sounded slightly better, but had an annoying habit of often refusing to turn on due to short circuit protection unless I...

I've done it solo. Get it lined up on one side, then apply pressure with the knee. I almost think this was suggested by instructions that came with the panel. Mine are CLS II's, but I don't see any substantial difference. I did it with the frame not attached to the transformer box or stand...

Well, if any speaker is going to be the source of that problem, ML 'stats surely are.