I've had my CLX ART for several years (since 12/2013), and they are the most unfussy speaker ever for electrostatic panels. The sound is simply divine where it really matters, upper bass on up. Yes, I use 2 x BF212 subs but that won't add the dynamic driver SLAM. I find the lack of ultimate (it isn't near terrible) easy to compromise as everything else, and I mean EVERYTHING else, is so darn good for the price. Listen to these speakers awhile and then try anything else, half the sound seems stuck in time before it hits your ear. These speakers just do it right at an incredible price. Oh, go to the CLX ART product page and click on the reviews, yes, I'm the rower30 that wrote that review (Hemmingway is certainly still safe) and I read it again after someone mentioned it was posted, and I still agree 100% with what I said after all these years.
The CLX are played A LOT, and show zero issues at all. I keep trying to "replace them" but it has been fruitless. Maybe the Persona 9H, but I'd need to see if the added mid bass punch and dynamics cones are good for mess up the incredible vocal rightness of the CLX. People that come over are stunned when I flick the CLX on. They expect glassy, thin and strident sound as that's the party line. No, you get rich, uniform and fast as lightening edge detail that solidifies the sound stage like no other. What box? Just a wall of sound in proper perspective.
To that end, the soundstage, these are ONE PERSON speakers to hear the magic. No big deal as this is my set-up. But it is a point. To maximize the soundstage, I use ZERO toe in after several other set-ups. So straight across and eight feet apart from the inner edges. I sit 11 feet back and Peter Paul and Mary sound like a vocal orgy several feet to the side of each speaker! If you truly cherish the sound of the human voice and acoustics you KNOW the sound of go listen to the CLX. A properly treated used pair? OMG yes.
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