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Sound and Vision Who reads Sound and Vision? I don't know and really don't care. I think that manufacturers should do a better job of advertising in magazines other than Sound and Vision or Stereophile and TAS for that matter. Only people interested in our hobby buy these types of magazines. We...

upgrading to Summits At half price,I would go for a whole Krell System with good cables and power conditioning.Buy the best you can once and forget about it.Buy separates,mono amps,pre and cd(sacd). I don't think you need the sub,buy a decent source. You have the opportunity to fly first class...

damping Because a speaker weighs 110 lbs doesn't disqualify it from adding extra weight.That weight is distributed weight, the added damping is intended to further anchor the speaker to the floor by adding weight to a specific area. Take a 100 lb man and give him a push and you will more than...

Cls I always had heard about but never tried to vacuum my CLS 11Z panels.They were never in a smoking environment and they never seemed to look dusty. I am now a convert. I did not spend a great deal of time or effort when I tried this, but the results have been so positive that I will revisit...

Is Decent overkill The bass from the Summits will provide great bass from the left front and right front side of your room,but you need to equalize the bass pressure in the rest of the room.This is where a couple of Decents or even Depths come into play. Multiple subs placed on different sides...

Do you still love I still love them,enough to have 2 pair. Sometimes I run a complete ML surround system with 4 CLS 11z and a depth sub and Theatre centre. Sometimes I just run one pair with the Depth in a 2 channel system, and I have used 2 pair,side by side in a 2 channel system that had an...

HT front stage I don't know why they did it like they did,but it does a good job with my CLS on each side and better than using a real mismatch all cone centre from someonelse., There is coherence the way they did it.I haven't tried any other centres except the Theatre with my CLS.I had a...

Quest enclosure Another material for consideration,although costly, would be corian,and could probably be a custom job not too difficult for the folks at the Home Depot. My secret wish project is to have the wood panels of my CLS11Z replaced by custom carbon fibre ones. These would be very nice...

Quest enclosure What's wrong with using sand or lead filled metal for the frame? Anyone with basic welding skills should be able to come up with a very sturdy design eliminating all the problems of wood.CLS speakers are enhanced when they are locked into an Arcici or Sound Anchor stand. As far...

Nordost vs I am quite pleased with Goertz silver cables,they are not very thick but have much better bass control than some of the thicker stranded copper cables I have used.The treble is very detailed but not harsh or fatiguing. I think flat cables are best with the panels,as I believe most...

As far as power cord tweaks go, this is what I have found to improve the sound of my CLS so I am sure it would work on any of the other ML stats and all stats in general. Because a stat can act like a huge antenna,you need to have some sort of conditioning on it,just as you would with any other...

Leaning back In my case I do not sit close to the speakers. There is a seven foot space between the inner wood left and right panels of the speaker,they are five feet from the wall behind them and four feet from side walls and fifteen feet from my chair.I am pretty much in the centre,sweet...

CLS improved clarity I got increased clarity by doing the exact opposite. I have no tilt,they are the same distance to the wall behind them from the top of the speaker to the bottom. Ditto for toe in,mine are straight ahead,the left and right edges of each speaker are the exact same distance...

CLS sound enhancement - New Terminals Even though those nice gold speaker terminals seem like high end connectors,they are in fact serious sound degraders. I have not done the direct solder yet because I am not sure how the solid silver spades on my Goertz cables(very pleasant sounding)will...

To bass or not to bass When I hear remarks like"listen to that bass, listen to the extension"that you hear from people who have mated subs with their CLs or other stats,I have to wonder what is it that they are listenening to that has drawn so much attention to it's self?Surely a seemless blend...

to bass or not to bass A double CLS is double of what a single cls is.It is quite that simple. Wherever you place your first pair put the second pair side by side so the wood panels are almost touching.Now to wire them, you wire in series.This is also very simple. Take the single positve...

To Bass or not to bass Let me start by saying I love Stats. For me every cone speaker with multiple drivers and crossovers,gets tiring after awhile.My first pair was the second generation (no tube amp)Acoustat 3. It was fine but the bass didn't fill the room the way my friends original...

CLS built in eq Try doubling up on the CLS. I place mine side by side.You will still have the sound of a single coherent CLS with the added radiated area of the extra panels and that means more bass will be provided. More bass in this case is not deeper,or louder bass, just more bass than with...

Double CLS The reason why I like the double pair of CLS is that I get the SAME bass that a single pair deliver,but at the same time I get more room filling bass.Perhaps a better way of putting it is that you don't feel you need to do anything to augment the bass.Trying to get cone woofers to be...

Double CLS One more thing to consider about double CLS is their cost factor. Used CLS speakers are selling pretty cheap right now,you could probably double up and still have money in the bank instead of going with an elaborate cross-over sub woofer set up. I wish there was some way to have...