Anyone Had Extended Listening Experience With MBL?

@prof 

Nice post.

Rocked my world, prof. Your comments bare heed.

Unfortunately, the only time I heard MBL's was at a RMAF and some guy decked in bling was listening to ZZ Top on the all-MBL system. I sensed he had stupid money, so this was allowed to continue too long. I love ZZ Top and all, but...

Dave

dlcockrum,

Talking about "stupid money.."

I once had a chance to bid for a once-in-a-lifetime priced MBL 101Ds (I think on audiogon).  I was in a bidding war and put in my last bid, way leaping over the other guy, in the last 10 seconds or so.  A software or connection glitch meant the connection timed out and my last bid didn't go through, letting the other guy get it.  I was unbelievably pissed and it's haunted me since.

I actually managed to get in touch with the member who won that auction and it turned out he mostly "liked the way they looked" and put them in his gym to listen to background music while he worked out.

Life ain't fair...

A tragically sad story indeed, prof.

My personal story of material tragedy is the rich kid that bought my mint, numbers-matching 69 Z28 with the ultra-rare (500 produced) GM Penske/Donahue crossram racing intake, two Holly 585 no-choke double pumpers and professionally built, balanced-and-blueprinted 302 motor and then pulled and traded that motor for a POS big block, completely ruining the collectability of the car. $175k => $30k in the blink of an eye. Broke my heart.

Dave

LOL, I had absolutely no idea what you were talking about until I finally saw the word "car" at the end.  I'm not a car guy.  But whatever that meant, you have my sympathies :-)