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Fair enough 😄 I was thinking of ML being effectively a Canadian company these many years.

In which case, what are you doing on a Martin Logan forum? 😉

There’s effectively a taper on the holding slots, so they can be held very firmly. To get mine off, I laid the speakers down on their backs and it took a few good whacks with a rubber mallet to get them to move.

Some years ago I bought a complete Linn HT system (Class D). A not inexpensive system. Paired it with my then Aerius is for a few months, before deciding that they were not a happy combination. They did however work very well indeed with Linn's own speakers. Switched to Spires recently, and...

Yep. Plenty of us around. I bought a pair of Aerius i s in 2001 and never looked back. I had to relegate them to our music room for some years, as they really didn't get on with the Linn amps in my living room HT system. But this summer, I switched to an Arcam processor, plus Michell Monobloc...

Experiment - I’d seen a number of posts to the effect that a) it actually does make a difference to the bass response and b) leaves a dedicated channel for driving the panels. My conclusion was that it did make a difference, mostly to to panel sound. However, the bigger improvement is from...

No, bi-amp - the Arcam usefully has software-controlled bi-amping which allows you to assign unused amp channels to bi-amp the main speakers.

Resurrecting a very old post, flagged to me when I just posted a recommendation for Alectos in the 'which is the best amp' thread. Having just swapped in a pair of recently upgraded (250wRMS/8ohm) Alecto II monoblocs in place of a Mark Levinson 331 (which was merely brilliant), I can confidently...

Slightly left-field wrt most of the comments in this thread, but I've just had a revelatory experience with amps for my Spires. I'd started with bi-amping from my Arcam AVR20 receiver and the sound was excellent - great staging and transparency, but perhaps just a little harshness in the vocals...

According to my calculations, the Gaia IIIs ought to be fine with my Spires (IIRC, 27kg each speaker). They also have active electronics, so I may have the same issue of needing the 3/8-16 adapters of the right length

I’m a forty year Apple user, and was attached to the Advanced Technology Group at Cupertino, so my credentials are pretty good there. But Apple Music? Shocking interface, continuous up-sell, quality issues only just being addressed now and poor integration beyond its own ecosystem. I went...

That kept happening to mine: i eventually took the oak trims off (tap downwards with rubber mallet) and found that the 3M tape below the stators still had its top plastic protection strip on - after nearly 20 years! Peeled that off, replaced stators and trim, and no more slippage.

Very good points about the cap replacement, thanks - the 331 I’m looking at had them replaced 3 years ago - I’ve asked about the others, but it sounds like, all things being equal, I might be better off with a 331 with caps that have been replaced vs a 334 or 431 of unknown provenance.

Thanks - will double check

I’m looking at (at various prices) the Mark Levinson 331, 334 and 431 for my new-to-me Spires - opinions from those who’ve used these combinations or similar would be most welcome!

Haven’t quite got the room to bring them out that far, but they’re about 2m from each side wall, which definitely helps - I fact I ended up with them further apart and with less toe in than I was expecting to need - imaging is superb

I’ve just bought a pair of Spires in the UK for just over $3000 - and are a massive upgrade over my 2001Aerius i s. So moving forward a generation or two does seem to make a big difference.

Much the same - currently set up with the back of the panel around 65cm from the wall, in a 6.7*5.5m room, so I've a little negotiating space to move them out a bit. Getting very good imaging however, but I've only just started experimenting with the setup

Here we go - i and my excellent neighbour (speakers wouldn’t fit my car!) drove over to Elite Audio UK in Pittenweem (yes, that is a real place) and spent a good couple of hours auditioning the Spires, with everything from Tallis to Morcheeba via London Grammar. Was sold by the end of the first...

Slightly less than 1/3, and appear well looked after - going for a listen at the weekend