Went to another location today that had the 526 and a pair of 536 with the 519 connected to Martin Logan Renaissance. I can't begin to describe how ... terrible it sounded. My wife just walked out. It literally sounded like a cheap receiver.
Now the rest of the story ... was in a 8X8 room with very inexpensive interconnects and one of the amps was so hot it would have burnt my hand had I left it there. It was also a different location of the same store I visited with the blown No53. They will soon have a dead 536 I'm afraid.
Harmon can build all the greatest stuff in the world but unless they get some real dealers where we can actually hear this stuff I'm afraid the Levinson line will fade away.
By the way ... there is interest here in the new product as two other customers who had both old Levinson and Pass gear had stopped by to take a listen. We all just looked at each other in disbelief.
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