Recent content by fdlsys

Thanks gents! Had a few friends visiting today including the new owner and everybody was very impressed. So far the ruling is that these sound better than any of the previous ones (see above). I'm inclined to agree. This makes me even more anxious to start with "The Last ESL" project using...

Things are progressing nicely :) The CLS are in the house! This is still a temporary location, but 10 times better than the small space where I was busy bringing them back to life and testing initially. CLS are definitely something else. I have NEVER heard rendition of vocals like this...

Sorry mate, no idea about how the AC fq would affect these interfaces. Unfortunately I don't have the PSU schematics for any of the CLS, only the crossover diagrams. No knowledge about the "sleep timer". But, in case there is one and even if it is driven by AC clock, I cannot imagine why would...

Brad, your frame-works thread was what brought me to ML Owners; stunning work! Re. panels - I have seen them on and off the forum - these are apparently the "2nd generation" of the first CLS model. Repeating the "web-wisdom": The very first generation was the one with uniform arc across the...

On the CLS I it's just a mains transformer change. You need about 30VA with 230V secondary and as far as I know the trfs are available from original manufacturer ("MTC" I think?). I can give you the details tomorrow. It's easy to replace it by yourself I can't recall if the IIa is the same but...

Thanks Dave :) Gentlemen, since I am brand new in ML sound-space, may I use this opportunity to ask: How big are the sonic differences between the CLS models (CLS, IIa, IIz and any minor revisions in between) and is there a relatively uniform opinion which model indisputably sounds the best...

And done. Second speaker fixed. Both charged for an hour, no surprises, everything behaving perfectly. Spent about an hour listening. Happy days ahead! I'm keeping the strap-clamps on for another day, just in case.

Lekker bruu :) Congrats on the new toys!

Hi Bonzo, I'm afraid I can't compare the CLS to the others yet. I was busy fixing one broken frame over the weekend. Cold weather + aliphatic glue, not the ideal combination. I prefer to leave the joins clamped for 24 hrs under these conditions. I have assembled the other speaker in the...

Hello ML owners, Coming from decades of exposure to large panel full range ESLs I was naturally lusting for a pair of CLS but the Gods of Finance were not interested. Finally, planets aligned a few weeks ago and a deal too-good-to-pass materialised. So now, I have a pair of what appears to be...