rulerofrecords
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Hello from Cologne dear MLO-Forum,
this is my first post - I will do a proper introduction later! Promise!! But I'm right in the middle of making a decision which ML to buy and I could use some knowledge and proper advice and I could use it fast (purchase planned for this week). After an ugly divorce from my horn speakers I thought that now or never is the time to get a type of speaker that I have never heard until now - a panel! I did audition a Magnepan 1.7 with 25k of McIntosh muscle - that was "not so great". So I heard a Visa at a private home and an Ethos today at a dealer. Both speakers did surprise me pleasantly which is good news and I'm sure that I can live with both with regards to general sound signature. There is a couple of things that are of course different but here and now I would like to direct your attention to the subject of BASS.
My room is small, too small (162sq ft) but I simulated the distance I can achieve sitting away from the speakers in both cases and I think it more or less works/is okay for both speakers. The question is - which bass can I better control in my room. The active or the passive version? The Vista was driven by a Pentagon A100 amp which is known to make Infinity Kappa 9s throw in the towel and the Ethos driven by something fancy new from Lyngdorf (in direct mode so no dsp or Dirac on). I had to turn the bass of the Ethos down to -4 -6 to be happy with most stuff playing, and the bass of the Vista was just very surprising in its heft and quantity. So can I get my amps (2 class a mono blocks/50 Watt class a Krell clones) to control the Vistas or what power-amp/integrated amp will work. With the Ethos I hope I do not have to turn the bass down all the way all the time. I'm happy for any idea, advice and please shoot away which Speaker u would get regardless of anything said before. The Vista comes with sexy cables (power and speaker) is much older but almost "not used" - it at least looks that way. It also has two black aftermarket boxes connected to the bass terminals. I have sent picture of the black-boxes to ML to figure out what those boxes are/do! The Ethos is only 5 years old, also looks and feels new and is roughly 1k more expensive. I understand that the Ethos is the much more expensive speaker but as a panel virgin both Martin Logans did offer me enough to make me very itchy to pull the trigger.
That's it for now. Thank you in advance for all you input and guidance. Greatly appreciated!! Cheers Uli
this is my first post - I will do a proper introduction later! Promise!! But I'm right in the middle of making a decision which ML to buy and I could use some knowledge and proper advice and I could use it fast (purchase planned for this week). After an ugly divorce from my horn speakers I thought that now or never is the time to get a type of speaker that I have never heard until now - a panel! I did audition a Magnepan 1.7 with 25k of McIntosh muscle - that was "not so great". So I heard a Visa at a private home and an Ethos today at a dealer. Both speakers did surprise me pleasantly which is good news and I'm sure that I can live with both with regards to general sound signature. There is a couple of things that are of course different but here and now I would like to direct your attention to the subject of BASS.
My room is small, too small (162sq ft) but I simulated the distance I can achieve sitting away from the speakers in both cases and I think it more or less works/is okay for both speakers. The question is - which bass can I better control in my room. The active or the passive version? The Vista was driven by a Pentagon A100 amp which is known to make Infinity Kappa 9s throw in the towel and the Ethos driven by something fancy new from Lyngdorf (in direct mode so no dsp or Dirac on). I had to turn the bass of the Ethos down to -4 -6 to be happy with most stuff playing, and the bass of the Vista was just very surprising in its heft and quantity. So can I get my amps (2 class a mono blocks/50 Watt class a Krell clones) to control the Vistas or what power-amp/integrated amp will work. With the Ethos I hope I do not have to turn the bass down all the way all the time. I'm happy for any idea, advice and please shoot away which Speaker u would get regardless of anything said before. The Vista comes with sexy cables (power and speaker) is much older but almost "not used" - it at least looks that way. It also has two black aftermarket boxes connected to the bass terminals. I have sent picture of the black-boxes to ML to figure out what those boxes are/do! The Ethos is only 5 years old, also looks and feels new and is roughly 1k more expensive. I understand that the Ethos is the much more expensive speaker but as a panel virgin both Martin Logans did offer me enough to make me very itchy to pull the trigger.
That's it for now. Thank you in advance for all you input and guidance. Greatly appreciated!! Cheers Uli
