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I've been contemplating the length of a writeup for another slew of speakers that i auditioned over the weekend with a few friends and decided i will try to keep this one short.

A friend is putting together a basement reno including a media room. He's spending pretty big bucks so i went through some quotes from local vendors with him and we went to hear some speakers and look at gear. I won't bother going through all the gear list but in the mix these speakers were powered/played by Macintosh, Denon, Arcam FMJ, Moon Audio, Cary Audio and Cambridge Audio.

The speaker list:

Magnepans (either the MG12 or MG1.6, i oddly cannot recall exactly)



Martin Logan Spires




B&M 804s



Monitor Audio Silver S6s



At times these were coupled with the MA surrounds:
RSFXs

and lastly,

Monitor Audio Platinum PL100s




I plan on going back to hear the Monitor Audio PL300 series which has changed the MA standard of a 2.5 way driver system to a true 3 way driver system (dedicated midrange).

Chinese knock-offs?

Looking forward to your thoughts, Chess!

Me, too, definitely.

I have upgradeitis pre-symptoms already.

That's quite the list, should be a fun time, looking forward to the results.

Maggies.................oh boy I hope they are the 1.6s.

I was back at the store today, looking for an audio rack, with the wife in tow.
They were indeed the Magnepan 1.6 models. I got to hear them again today.

Slapping together some thoughts this evening.

On a related note, the B&W speakers were the 803DB model driven by Sim Audio gear. Nothing was hooked up to anything under 6k in these two listening rooms.
Just crazy.
A $6500 cd player. No, it doesn't do dvds, SACD or DVD-a, mp3s, o any other audio format, just cds.
It was larger than my Anthem MCA20 amp.
How is that possible?
I have no idea.

A cd player of that size/price will certainly add more bottom end to the sound

Yes a cdp of that weight likely would make a good boat anchor.