Logans are great I've owned a half dozen of them and good one's. I'm sure the new ones are better. What happened was I probably would have always had Martin Logans forever and just kept getting the newer models until by chance I had an experience that changed it all.
I had the ML Spires which I loved and I just upgraded to the Summits and I was as happy as can be. Better bass and better panel and driver integration and life was good. Wasn't even considering another brand or anything like that. I was a loyal and Happy Martin Logan guy. Told everyone I knew they were the best.
We redid an extra of room of kitchen and we made it into a reading / TV / den room. To lounge and relax in. Already had a great room that was my dedicated auto room but this was another one for kids or whatever. I couldn't listen to TV speakers. That lasted a week. I said ugh I need something cheap that might be semi ok and I'll just use a simple decent quality Hegel Integrated with it built in DAC to run cable TV box into and I had a decent little Bel Canto CD Player with the little extra power supply and some extra Cardas cables and I just needed to pick up a cheap pair of older speakers.
I found a thousand dollar pair that were old but in decent shape and were pretty well thought of. They were Audio Physic Virgo II's. Kind of old and ugly - older wood looking and sort of thin but deep with side firing woofers and much heavier and more substantial than I thought they would be from looking at the pics. I got them home and hooked them in a modest, simple second system and from the very first note I was like "no way".They wiped the floor with the Martin Logans. Just blew their doors off and without even near as good equipment. That's when I realized Martin Logans are great for what they do but they have a huge hole in their game. They have that sweet n low flavor verse real sugar. Just artificial and fake sounding when compared to an earthy - grounded real speaker. It was super enlightening. This was from a flag flying card carrying Martin Logan lover.
Thought id share this experience because every time I hear Martin Logans I can't help think how royally those $10,000 speakers got royally thrashed. I was actually sad but I came though and now I'm fixing for a pair of Magico S5's and I'm super excited but waiting is tough - love all the feedback and comments guys!
I had the ML Spires which I loved and I just upgraded to the Summits and I was as happy as can be. Better bass and better panel and driver integration and life was good. Wasn't even considering another brand or anything like that. I was a loyal and Happy Martin Logan guy. Told everyone I knew they were the best.
We redid an extra of room of kitchen and we made it into a reading / TV / den room. To lounge and relax in. Already had a great room that was my dedicated auto room but this was another one for kids or whatever. I couldn't listen to TV speakers. That lasted a week. I said ugh I need something cheap that might be semi ok and I'll just use a simple decent quality Hegel Integrated with it built in DAC to run cable TV box into and I had a decent little Bel Canto CD Player with the little extra power supply and some extra Cardas cables and I just needed to pick up a cheap pair of older speakers.
I found a thousand dollar pair that were old but in decent shape and were pretty well thought of. They were Audio Physic Virgo II's. Kind of old and ugly - older wood looking and sort of thin but deep with side firing woofers and much heavier and more substantial than I thought they would be from looking at the pics. I got them home and hooked them in a modest, simple second system and from the very first note I was like "no way".They wiped the floor with the Martin Logans. Just blew their doors off and without even near as good equipment. That's when I realized Martin Logans are great for what they do but they have a huge hole in their game. They have that sweet n low flavor verse real sugar. Just artificial and fake sounding when compared to an earthy - grounded real speaker. It was super enlightening. This was from a flag flying card carrying Martin Logan lover.
Thought id share this experience because every time I hear Martin Logans I can't help think how royally those $10,000 speakers got royally thrashed. I was actually sad but I came though and now I'm fixing for a pair of Magico S5's and I'm super excited but waiting is tough - love all the feedback and comments guys!