abacus30
Member
Hi everyone,
Happy new year. I'm about to buy some new ML's and was wondering if I might get some advice, thoughts, feedback on which ones to purchase.
I've listened to the Theos and the electromotion ESL's at Best Buy (Magnolia's listening room) a few months ago and really couldn't tell that big of a difference - although we only got to hear one song through the Theos speakers and probably 5 songs through the ESL's. They both sounded phenomenal! Has anyone listened to the new ESL's and thought they sound comparable to any of the higher priced models??
I presently have a brand new Yamaha Aventage RX-A3010 receiver - "9-channel sound/150W per Channel (8 ohms, 20 Hz-20 kHz, 0.06 % THD, 2 ch driven)" in a 26x20' room, along with a Yamaha 5.1 surround "box" system I bought 10 years ago. I'm NOT an audiophile and don't even know how to download music. I listen to cd's and Sonos about 2/3's of the time and watch TV/Movies around 1/3 of the time. A lot of that 1/3 of home theater time is actually spent watching concerts on blu-ray or on the Paladia channel. My wife and I are huge music lovers (especially rock and blues) and have actually attended 1000+ concerts each in our lives... but not audiophile geeks. FLAC? SACD? hz vs. dB? WTF? LOL!
By freak chance, this past August, my wife and I happened to listen to some Martin Logan ESL's (and a pair of Theos) and realized we were really missing out on some good quality sound. I wanted to buy them immediately, but wife would never agree to buy ML's because of their height. She wanted "speakers, not furniture!" After many auditions of various high-end speakers (magnepan, focal, salk, B&W, definitive, Paradigm, BG radia, etc...) and not being content with any of them, my wife finally broke down this past weekend and said we could get Martin Logans. We must stay within a $10,000ish budget for a whole new 5.1 surround sound setup. So ESL, Theos or Ethos... I just don't know which is really better for us. I'm leaning toward the ESL's, since I don't use a DAC and love streaming audio from the Sonos system through my home theater. I'm assuming cd's and streaming sonos through my Yamaha receiver won't really be able to take advantage of what the Theos & Ethos have to offer and therefor it would be overkill to buy either of them, but maybe I'm wrong? After I figure out what fronts are best for us, I'll need to get a center along with them immediately... but in the end, all 6 speakers must stay within $10,000 - $11,000ish.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Happy new year. I'm about to buy some new ML's and was wondering if I might get some advice, thoughts, feedback on which ones to purchase.
I've listened to the Theos and the electromotion ESL's at Best Buy (Magnolia's listening room) a few months ago and really couldn't tell that big of a difference - although we only got to hear one song through the Theos speakers and probably 5 songs through the ESL's. They both sounded phenomenal! Has anyone listened to the new ESL's and thought they sound comparable to any of the higher priced models??
I presently have a brand new Yamaha Aventage RX-A3010 receiver - "9-channel sound/150W per Channel (8 ohms, 20 Hz-20 kHz, 0.06 % THD, 2 ch driven)" in a 26x20' room, along with a Yamaha 5.1 surround "box" system I bought 10 years ago. I'm NOT an audiophile and don't even know how to download music. I listen to cd's and Sonos about 2/3's of the time and watch TV/Movies around 1/3 of the time. A lot of that 1/3 of home theater time is actually spent watching concerts on blu-ray or on the Paladia channel. My wife and I are huge music lovers (especially rock and blues) and have actually attended 1000+ concerts each in our lives... but not audiophile geeks. FLAC? SACD? hz vs. dB? WTF? LOL!
By freak chance, this past August, my wife and I happened to listen to some Martin Logan ESL's (and a pair of Theos) and realized we were really missing out on some good quality sound. I wanted to buy them immediately, but wife would never agree to buy ML's because of their height. She wanted "speakers, not furniture!" After many auditions of various high-end speakers (magnepan, focal, salk, B&W, definitive, Paradigm, BG radia, etc...) and not being content with any of them, my wife finally broke down this past weekend and said we could get Martin Logans. We must stay within a $10,000ish budget for a whole new 5.1 surround sound setup. So ESL, Theos or Ethos... I just don't know which is really better for us. I'm leaning toward the ESL's, since I don't use a DAC and love streaming audio from the Sonos system through my home theater. I'm assuming cd's and streaming sonos through my Yamaha receiver won't really be able to take advantage of what the Theos & Ethos have to offer and therefor it would be overkill to buy either of them, but maybe I'm wrong? After I figure out what fronts are best for us, I'll need to get a center along with them immediately... but in the end, all 6 speakers must stay within $10,000 - $11,000ish.
Thanks for any thoughts.