MY REVIEW: Merlin TSM MMM BME


The Good & The Great speakers!

Cont’d from my last initial thoughts of these new TSM MMM BME (black magic edition) monitors…..

The TSM have averaged close to 300 hours emerging truthfully and sonically superior. I’ve not heard a more honest speaker such as these. When I listen to the music coming out of these monitors, my only thoughts are of memories, times and places of my life. Its funny how certain moments in life are summed up by various music/songs. That’s what happens when you have a good pair of speakers – you no longer listen to the equipment but drawn by the music. The speakers are so uncolored and true that it allows me to emotionally connect with simply the music and the artist. The new TSM black magic are like a candle in the darkness, it leaves nothing unhidden.

I’ve put this monitor into ring fights against ‘the great’ Sonus Faber Auditor, Devore Fidelity 3XL and Joseph Audio Pulsar. The TSM MMM Black Magic KO’d them all. There are 2 truths at play here: One is that many people do not know what instruments sound like in real life – hence confirming their lack of knowledge to listening since they have been so used to artificial sweeteners (colored sounding speakers) in their daily life. Secondly, most audiophiles will simply abandon and blame the truthfulness of the TSM because it reveals too much of the users faulty upstream components.

Perhaps the TSM black magic edition may still not appease to everyone as their cup of tea…not everyone is a musician who can hear true tones, attacks, decays and pitches of music from live instruments. Otherwise all other speaker manufacturers would have folded years ago. But to those who accept nothing but the truth, I gladly applaud and announce the Merlin TSM MMM Black Magic. It is the good speaker. After so many hours with this pair of TSM, the search is over. Yes Captain Kirk and the crew of the enterprise can come home now and begin a new voyage. The time now is to search out new music, different genres and perhaps make new memories with music as opposed to jumping on Agon or Ebay to rotate audio equipment. Time to get off the merry-go-round folks! And the new TSM is the ticket off that merry-go-round. Time to wake up from the Matrix and realize…the truth.

Please note that in my review of these newly acquired speakers of mine, I don’t talk about what the lows, mids or highs are doing. Why? Because everything the speakers do are musically correct! Who has time to dissect and regurgitate what others have stated already? Not me. Just listen!

Good speakers will leave you hungry for more music because it has subconsciously touched you at an emotional level. That’s what the TSM do! Great speakers (those the TSM KO’d) will grab your attention for a few minutes and then kick you out of the room. Maybe subconsciously making you want to go do something else altogether. Great speakers will fuel that wicked cycle of going through dozens of pairs of speakers and equipment throughout your lifetime here on earth.

Where do I go from here? I’m not sure. I guess I’m done? Like the alcoholic audio trader who’s come out of Agon rehab (from constantly trading audio equipment for years), like the convict exiting the cells from a 20yrs sentence…what to do now??? The TSM MMM BME has been my ticket out from that wicked cycle of audio trading. For those that are willing to listen they are wise. Only the fool, will say otherwise and to them they re-enter that merry-go-round madness still constantly searching….fast asleep within the Matrix.

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Sophia Electric 126S, Merlin TSM MMM BME (Black Magic Edition), Grover Huffman ZX, Shunyata, Sound Anchors, Well Tempered Record Player, Nagaoka MP-50, Heed Audio Quasar, ASI resonators & sugar cubes
vangstr
reynolds, you have not heard the speakers in years and with the last few versions there has been a remarkable move in a direction you would probably like. you had an early pair so what you say is not fair to merlin or to my decades of work.
notice i have not said a thing about the review above or defended the individual. i had no control over what he said in the review or here in the string. my entry was brought on by a individual who called my work lousy. he has a right to his opinion of course but so do i. it is always better to have first hand knowledge of a thing before you make those kinds of comments. i am virtually 100% sure that he does not, nor do you for that matter.
i have changed a lot over the years and i think for the better. time has tempered me. i have also lived through a few family issues that have made me grow up and see what is really important.
however, i can still bite if provoked. :)
thanks for your thoughts.
bobby at merlin
Vangstr, Thanks for your honest comments and review. The Merlins sound ever more enticing and they remain on my short list of speaker candidates.
mt, fair enough as well.
i have no issues with you, you have never said anything about the speakers. in fact you have said you would really like to hear them, which i appreciate. i just wish that you and others would not troll merlin threads and throw in comments designed to enrage. i suppose it is fun to do but not at someone else's expense.
still laying low after my wife's illness so no for axpona. next show rmaf and maybe the ces.

best, b@merlin
Bobby, now that many are coming round to the superb sound of the silk dome, it would seem that your thoughts on this older driver have been vindicated.
I will look forward to your return.