Scottinwa
Active member
When the media writes about speakers from $2000 a pair and up, M-L should be used as a reference speaker.
Before lavish praise is slathered too deeply on other speakers, they need to be judged by a speaker that really doesn't color the music, and really is transparent.
It's really an eye opener just how many loudspeakers over $2K a pair have inherent colorations and flaws that aren't commensurate with high fidelity.
I could name a great number of speakers up to $100k a pair that I was not impressed by, due to either lifelessness, or outright coloration like port noise or a tweeter that calls attention to itself.
In the 2-3 grand range, Paradigm studio 100's are nice speakers, but please... they sound very ordinary and slow compared to ML. So do $7,000 a pair Vienna Acoustics.
Like I said in my introductory post, I became "Instantly jaded" on my ML audition because it was one of the few times I was listening to music, and not a speaker.
Before lavish praise is slathered too deeply on other speakers, they need to be judged by a speaker that really doesn't color the music, and really is transparent.
It's really an eye opener just how many loudspeakers over $2K a pair have inherent colorations and flaws that aren't commensurate with high fidelity.
I could name a great number of speakers up to $100k a pair that I was not impressed by, due to either lifelessness, or outright coloration like port noise or a tweeter that calls attention to itself.
In the 2-3 grand range, Paradigm studio 100's are nice speakers, but please... they sound very ordinary and slow compared to ML. So do $7,000 a pair Vienna Acoustics.
Like I said in my introductory post, I became "Instantly jaded" on my ML audition because it was one of the few times I was listening to music, and not a speaker.