gander222
Member
Hi,
I'm Gary and I just bought a pair if Martin Logan Sequel II speakers, and they are great!
I have a Butler Audio 2250 amp driving them, and a Promitheus TVC (transformer volume control) passive preamp. Because of the new MLs, the Butler amp and the TVC, my source is now showing its limitations (a Pioneer 79avi CD/DVD/SACD player), so old it doesn't even have HDMI, but it does SACD, it's a good transport, and the analog out isn't bad. I'm auditioning DACs now.
Maybe someone out there can help me out with this issue. I love the MLs, but one thing that irks me about them are the binding posts. They are so limiting. I have never had speakers that use other than standard binding posts. They only unscrew about 2-3 turns, so I can't hook up thick speaker wire; they force me to use bananas, and the jumpers (if you don't use the cheap metal jumpers provided) have to fit through a tiny hole between posts. Why not use standard 5-way binding posts and give me flexibility on how I hook things up??? I looked inside and the binding posts are soldered in, and the lower posts are hiding under the circuit board, so substituting the posts is a job not for the faint of heart (not for me, at least). And when I contacted Martin Logan, they said there are no binding post upgrades for that model. What is a boy to do???
Gary
I'm Gary and I just bought a pair if Martin Logan Sequel II speakers, and they are great!
I have a Butler Audio 2250 amp driving them, and a Promitheus TVC (transformer volume control) passive preamp. Because of the new MLs, the Butler amp and the TVC, my source is now showing its limitations (a Pioneer 79avi CD/DVD/SACD player), so old it doesn't even have HDMI, but it does SACD, it's a good transport, and the analog out isn't bad. I'm auditioning DACs now.
Maybe someone out there can help me out with this issue. I love the MLs, but one thing that irks me about them are the binding posts. They are so limiting. I have never had speakers that use other than standard binding posts. They only unscrew about 2-3 turns, so I can't hook up thick speaker wire; they force me to use bananas, and the jumpers (if you don't use the cheap metal jumpers provided) have to fit through a tiny hole between posts. Why not use standard 5-way binding posts and give me flexibility on how I hook things up??? I looked inside and the binding posts are soldered in, and the lower posts are hiding under the circuit board, so substituting the posts is a job not for the faint of heart (not for me, at least). And when I contacted Martin Logan, they said there are no binding post upgrades for that model. What is a boy to do???
Gary