Any Montis or Ethos Owners Here?
 

If so, what do you think?

My father in law got the Ethos about two years back. I thought the bass was more seamlessly integrated than some of the previous models I heard.

Hello,

I have owned the Ethos and now own the Montis. Both are great loadspeakers.


Regards

Bought my Ethos last month. The best speakers I ever had. I heard several monitors of Genelec, Neumann, Adam, KSDigital... Some in a mastering room. But at last a dealer showed me the Magnepan 1.7 and the Ethos. The transparency and the holographic soundstage of these speakers are phantastic. Than I compared the Theos and the Ethos and the decision was clear: It must be the Ethos.

I'm listening right now to the Ethos and know it was the best deal I ever did in HiFi. But you should have a good room acoustic and electrostatic speakers need some space in their backs.

The Montis is a great speaker, I have yet to hear anything better at or near it's price point.

I bought my Ethos in October 2012. I'm very satisfied with the sound. I think the Ethos is the ML speaker with the best price-performance-ratio, because it has an active woofer unlike the Theos, which makes a cleaner bass. The sound quality is excellent and the leap to the Montis is much smaller than the leap from a passive to an active woofer.
Both speakers are great. :thumbsup:

I compared many active loudspeakers (Adam, Genelec, Neumann, KSDigital...) with the Ethos and the ML won clearly. I compared the Ethos with the Magnepan MG 1.7 and found the soundquality of both speakers great. The bass of the Maggie is a bit better integrated, but the overall performance of the Ethos is better, I think.

I would buy the Ethos again and I think that the smaller design of the Ethos fits my small room better than the larger Montis. But this is a very subjective view. You can't go wrong with both.

I have the Spires, same as Montis without the DSP processing.
Took long time to break in but sound wonderful, best integration of panel & woofers yet :banana:

Always owned panel speakers Acoustat Spectra 22s, Magnepan MG1.6, Martin Logan SL3 etc before getting the Spires

I have the Montis. In many ways a wonderful speaker but there is something wrong with the way it reproduces piano : the right hand is perfect as you would expect but the lower registers sound as if played on a cheap electric piano. Amp used is Devialet Premier which should be ok..

I'm right now listening to Artur Pizarro playing Beethoven Piano sonatas through my two week old Montis' (ie still not fully run in), and I'm not hearing the right hand great left hand terrible problem - and I hear lots of live piano to compare it with. Are your speakers well run in? Three possible placement causes - I find that the Montis need space (and an diffuse/absorbent surface) behind them; need to be spaced much further apart than you'd normally expect (I have the speakers closer to me than to each other - ie like a slightly flattened equilateral triangle); and only have them toed in a small amount almost as if they are pointing directly at someone well behind me. In my experience they are very revealing speakers - perhaps they don't match the rest of your system. I'm not familiar with your amp. Impedance can be a problem.

I have the Ethos. Traded up from the Aerius a few months ago.

I luv them. Had the Aerius for 19 years without a single problem. Hope the Ethos hold up as well.