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In Shower With M_Logans

They were delivered to me couple days ago. And very next day I received my new (used) DK Design....I missed two stop signs and passed a red light driving from work anticipating new to me hi-fidelity listening experience. I opened door..first thing I see my wife angree eyes. So before I can wire the speakers to amplifier I had to spent half of hour intruducing my wife into the beautiful world of antistatic panels and vacume tube technology. Once I've done with the speech I dedicated whole myself to cables and jumpers. 20 minutes later I am already pressing alumium botton on sexiest remote control I've ever hold in my hand. And.... I swear - my old $300 dollars TV sounded better! I am in panic. My wife is yelling. Kid is crying behind the door. And there is no undo button. Life immidiately turned black and white.
Next morning I get up 2 hours earlier than usually. Turned laptop on. Internet. Audiogon. Then martinlogans.com. Next I am naked in a shower with 0.0000000001 mm thin highly electronic membrane. Then boring 6 hours of drying session. I can't wait to see if there is any difference. Found old pack of cigarretes in garage. Smoked half of it. Finally membrane is dry. Back into the speaker. Amplifier ON. 5 seconds warm up. CD in. Pushed Play. Man! That is the difference! I am excited. Wife loves me again. Kid is loughing.
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goatwuss
877 posts
 
What kind of music are you listening to? It sounds like ML speakers are not for you. You like the Dynaudios in your car... why not get some Dynaudios? Try and fine some used Contours.... and you'll be in business
ncaudio
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I can see being excited about new speaekrs, but really... Anyway I would not recommend it, the issue is that ML uses foam to space the diaphram away from the grids, if the foam gets wet it can take forever to dry (imagine a wet sponge wedged between a piece of metal and piece of plastic, with only the edge exposed). I had a pair of CLS II's in my system in the early 90's, while having the couch cleaned, the guy squirted (just a little) water probably with cleaning solution in it into the front of one of the speakers, it ran down to the bottom, soaking the foam and causing the speaker to arc from the diaphram to the front grid. I tried dying it for along time (hours) with a fan and when plugged back in it would still sizzle and not play right since the HV was getting bled down. Luckily I was able to fix it by putting some clear silicone rubber in the area through one of the holes in the grid and sort of carefully forcing it down between the diaphram and the grid.

Anyway, word to the wise...
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audphile1
4,919 posts
 
are these ML speakers antistatic or electrostatic? Because if they are antistatic, this could be a reason why they are in coma.
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