Krazikiwi
Well-known member
1. Member Name: F Jeff
2. Location: Middle Earth, New Zealand
3. ML Model(s): Scenario
4. Year Purchased: 2003
5. Mods/Changes: none
6. Associated Electronics: Burmester 939 CD, Burmester 846 pre amp, Burmester 878 power amp, Burmester cables
7. Comments and/or stories about your Martin Logan experience: So this system started life in a larger library than our current home and it positively sang in that space. However despite its ‘compact’ conditions today, its German HiFi DNA shines through these small Martin Logans.
I put this system together for my German wife accepting that it was not my choice of audio signature but as an exercise to create a system with a ‘personality’ that reflects aspects that Germans favour in their HiFi and music listening. Culturally speaking Germans favour transparency, microscopic detail, analytical exposure.........you get the sonic picture........so I feel Dieter Burmester best embodies those attributes in his equipment. The preamp has a matching phono unit if required and was such a beautifully executed slim design in its day in the mid ‘80s, I just had to have it. The power amp can be bridged if required but it drives the ML Scenarios with ease and more than enough current to ensure absolute control. The CD player has an onboard DAC for other external digital sources.
The sound? Well the Martin Logans reveal exactly the chain driving them, in this case we have a total lack of colouration, just a clean, transparent, detailed presentation. My wife loves it, especially piano pieces recorded in the late ‘50s which I find interesting due to their warm ‘analogue’ nature on CD. Her girlfriends like the clarity of ‘the sound’ as well and I suspect the smallness of the ML Scenarios...... go figure. For me, this system is almost too hifi like, yet when I go to live classical concerts, I don’t hear the instruments like this, I hear the warm timbre of wood and wind instruments ‘pushing air’ in the hall............but this might be a subjective observation on my part.
I really do believe that different cultures look for quite different attributes when it comes to hifi and music reproduction but Martin Logans are a ‘clean window’ to be able to showcase these despite the differences.
2. Location: Middle Earth, New Zealand
3. ML Model(s): Scenario
4. Year Purchased: 2003
5. Mods/Changes: none
6. Associated Electronics: Burmester 939 CD, Burmester 846 pre amp, Burmester 878 power amp, Burmester cables
7. Comments and/or stories about your Martin Logan experience: So this system started life in a larger library than our current home and it positively sang in that space. However despite its ‘compact’ conditions today, its German HiFi DNA shines through these small Martin Logans.
I put this system together for my German wife accepting that it was not my choice of audio signature but as an exercise to create a system with a ‘personality’ that reflects aspects that Germans favour in their HiFi and music listening. Culturally speaking Germans favour transparency, microscopic detail, analytical exposure.........you get the sonic picture........so I feel Dieter Burmester best embodies those attributes in his equipment. The preamp has a matching phono unit if required and was such a beautifully executed slim design in its day in the mid ‘80s, I just had to have it. The power amp can be bridged if required but it drives the ML Scenarios with ease and more than enough current to ensure absolute control. The CD player has an onboard DAC for other external digital sources.
The sound? Well the Martin Logans reveal exactly the chain driving them, in this case we have a total lack of colouration, just a clean, transparent, detailed presentation. My wife loves it, especially piano pieces recorded in the late ‘50s which I find interesting due to their warm ‘analogue’ nature on CD. Her girlfriends like the clarity of ‘the sound’ as well and I suspect the smallness of the ML Scenarios...... go figure. For me, this system is almost too hifi like, yet when I go to live classical concerts, I don’t hear the instruments like this, I hear the warm timbre of wood and wind instruments ‘pushing air’ in the hall............but this might be a subjective observation on my part.
I really do believe that different cultures look for quite different attributes when it comes to hifi and music reproduction but Martin Logans are a ‘clean window’ to be able to showcase these despite the differences.
