Dreamer
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Well, I was in Raleigh NC today, and stopped by the Best Buy/Magnolia to see if they had any of the new MLs on display, and they DID have the Source on the floor.
They were hooked up to a BIG Denon receiver, and a Denon DVD player, so I didn't expect much, but they sounded pretty good. I was pretty impressed with these little ML's--they sound a lot like my Scenerios--perhaps a little more fluid, and with a little more bass.
However, they were set up ALL wrong--about 1 foot from the rear wall,, and toe'ed in so far that the center of the panels were pointing straight at the listening position, with the speakers set about 8ft apart...
I tried to tell the salesman that they needed to be moved to sound right, and asked if he could move them per my instruction. I even offered to get some CDs and a flashlight from my car to show him just how much of an improvement it would make over their current position.
I asked him if he'd ever heard of the "Jim Power's Toe-in Technique", or if the staff at this store had been trained by ML as to how to demo these speakers, and he looked at me like I was insane.
I told him that I'd been a Martin Logan owner for over 12 years, and owned two pair of ML speakers, and he still looked at me like I was a madman.
I then told him that I could almost GUARANTEE that he could increase his sales of ML speakers if only he would set them up the way they were supposed to be, and he told me, "We can't change their position--they are set that way to meet the floorplan, which comes from Corporate." Then he asked me if i wanted to talk to a manager...
Needless to say, I left.
I felt so sad for those little Source speakers. It must be terrible, living in a place like that, where nobody REALLY loves you...
And when I got home, I hugged my Sequels and Scenerios.
--Richard
They were hooked up to a BIG Denon receiver, and a Denon DVD player, so I didn't expect much, but they sounded pretty good. I was pretty impressed with these little ML's--they sound a lot like my Scenerios--perhaps a little more fluid, and with a little more bass.
However, they were set up ALL wrong--about 1 foot from the rear wall,, and toe'ed in so far that the center of the panels were pointing straight at the listening position, with the speakers set about 8ft apart...
I tried to tell the salesman that they needed to be moved to sound right, and asked if he could move them per my instruction. I even offered to get some CDs and a flashlight from my car to show him just how much of an improvement it would make over their current position.
I asked him if he'd ever heard of the "Jim Power's Toe-in Technique", or if the staff at this store had been trained by ML as to how to demo these speakers, and he looked at me like I was insane.
I told him that I'd been a Martin Logan owner for over 12 years, and owned two pair of ML speakers, and he still looked at me like I was a madman.
I then told him that I could almost GUARANTEE that he could increase his sales of ML speakers if only he would set them up the way they were supposed to be, and he told me, "We can't change their position--they are set that way to meet the floorplan, which comes from Corporate." Then he asked me if i wanted to talk to a manager...
Needless to say, I left.
I felt so sad for those little Source speakers. It must be terrible, living in a place like that, where nobody REALLY loves you...
And when I got home, I hugged my Sequels and Scenerios.
--Richard