Mbl Magic?


I recently visited some showrooms, heard jbl, one of their top models and focal's 1007 monitor. Ok not the same price point as mbl's. There are so many more I have heard since hearing the mbl's.
Why do the mbl's blow everything out of the water for me like nothing else?
How many goners own the mbl's and feel the same way? Even the 116's satisfy me but not the 121's.
I would like to hear how mbl owners came to decide that the mbl's are the ones.
Are there any that approach their life-like sound stage?
Are there any ex-mbl owners that have moved onto something else, I would like to hear these stories as well.
pedrillo
Pedrillo, MBL's like any other speaker will be a personal flavour some will appreciate what they do and others will prefer others and that's life. I am a MBL 101E owner, I have owned many speakers in the past such as panels, electrostatics, dynamic box speakers, sub-satellite combo's and I have to say after hearing the MBL's nothing else I have heard satisfies me as these do. I currently have them hooked-up with Convergent "CAT" JL3 Signature MK2 mono blocks and this sound is to die for. Absolutely the most satisfying sound that I have ever personally experience in my own set-up. I went through recently having allot of top contender solid state amplifiers and nothing, I mean nothing came even close.

Pedrillo you know the experience that you are having hearing the speakers and comparing to others and how you feel well put it this way you haven't heard them yet until you hear them hooked-up with CAT amps so if you are impressed now just wait and you will be in awe.
Pedrillo MBL 101E's, oh and just to let you know I use to own Avalon Isis and prefer these.
I think the richness and liveliness you hear from a well set-up pair of MBLs is due in large measure to the unusually well-energized, spectrally correct reverberant field they generate. In this area, the MBLs replicate the soundfield characteristics of a live performance better than most speakers do; most speakers generate a reverberant field that is much weaker (relative to the direct sound) than one would find at a live performance, and that weak reverberant field is often spectrally dissimilar to the first-arrival sound. MBL isn't the only manuracturer who gives these characteristic high priority.

Duke
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