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Summit X + Vienna Acoustics The KISS KLIMT
Today, I goofed around in my office and added a pair of McIntosh MC275s to my office system running MC2301s as well as combining the following speaker arrangement: Summit X + Vienna Acoustics The KISS KLIMT
Note: I am a devoted fan of Martin Logan. After adding the traditional box type speaker [Vienna Acoustics The KISS KLIMT] has added an additional auditory flavourful layer of sound. Wew...I can't put into words the sensory delights, but I am startled and the new sound dimension. I am getting both an electrostatic sound along with some traditional movement. The experience is fun and interesting. Anyone else else try something similar: adding a traditional speaker along with electrostats? |
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Sounds fun, but it seems it would be hard to get everything to hook up. Getting a subwoofer to seamlessly integrate into a system is hard enough for me...
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did you start drinking early today ???????
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I wish. I should be receive my 500C/T soon and brought down some equipment from my other place to my office and well...I didn't feel like working...so, I play with my audio toys.
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Here's a photo of my HomeDepot copper wire or whatever it is. Proof I am using the cheap stuff!
But, I do have a pair of AudioQuests connecting the MLs. Only because they are pretty, I may get another set of AudioQuests for the looks only. Last edited by Golucid; 03-07-2016 at 10:16 PM. |
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HI Golucid, i had contact to a Austrian guy, who was also experimenting between Summi X and standard build loudspeakers. In fact he switched completely to studio monitors.
I still like my summit´s very much as i´m in to electrostatic sound also with my headphones, which is my personal counterpart to the Martin logan system. As my listening room is smaller, the distance to my summit X is not too far. This and maybe while it is very quiet in my living area, i hear some fanlike noise from the bass section of my summit. We are quite sure (the Austrian heard the same noise) the reason are the digital amp´s serving the Sub speakers. If you get close to the active Summit (without music playing) do you hear this too? Reason i´m asking is that it could be a problem limited to european voltage. Thanks karl |
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I tested this out on my end and on both the VAs and the MLs. I hear nothing. Zilch! Though, this might be the case because I am running a Furman P-2400 IT. I did not test my speakers without conditioning. Perhaps it is either the conditioner or the voyage differences. I do not know. Did you test your end using a conditioner like similar or otherwise? Cheers, David |
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Hi David,
thank you for your answer, because of a overvoltage situation i had in my room that killed one of the summit boards, and to optimize current for the logans, i bought a Furman too. Here in Germany, the Furman IT-Reference 16Ei is the best one can get for home hifi and it´s a real heavy box. This one and a cheeper version of a Furman i had tested also, and this one was even louder, i got an extra noise problem. yes, they are noisy too. It seems to be a problem with the german 220 Volt current system!!!! The Furman hum origins from the big capacitor which was fixed to the housing. Dam the housing vibrations helped a lot. For the logans its a problem of the cheep digital amps on the summit board. I use a digital amp, an Lyngdorf TDAI 2200 for the Loudspeaker´s. No noise from the Amp. The same for the Esoteric D-02 DAC, STAX AMP... no problem at all. Only a custom made KGSS staxamp from Iceland has a little hum. The noise originating from the summit sub´s is very faint and it has to be very quiet in the room to recognize it. But i thought for 20.000 euros they should be perfect! Cheers Karl |
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After doing some research now im sure that all of the Summit X ML Loudspeaker have that noise problem. Reason are real cheap and crappy digital amp modules in the bass segment. Montis should be the same.
So all of US customers i had contact to, have a closer EAR to your Summit X sub system. MacBookPro SSD-WW platinum usb--Esoteric D-02--Gruensch CLSII se Amplification--MartinLogan Summit X Stax SR-009/007MkII--KGSS+Blue Hawaii-se Amp Last edited by audiokarl; 09-29-2015 at 12:28 PM. |
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