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In Reply to: Martin Logan CLX ART posted by Mister Pig on April 22, 2023 at 13:14:18:
I never realized I had not updated this thread. Yes I did get them in and have been going through a learning curve of set up. Part of my difficulty was that I have a dining room off the living room, and therefore I have to leave a pathway from that room to the living room. It limits how far I can get the speaker off the front wall.
I use ATC diffuser panels, a DSP program in my Trinov preamp, and acoustic panels to treat a living room the best I can. My previous speakers were a pair of JBL 4365, and I found I could place them wide and add moderate toe in to get a huge soundstage. The CLX do not respond the same way.
I had to bring them in a few inches from that spot and take out most of the toe in. The soundstage is quite nice, perhaps not quite as expansive as the JBL, but the trade off is you get a far more natural and nuanced sound. Piano and acoustic guitar is amazing, vocals are natural and in the room to an even greater degree. Instruments have lovely texture and decay.
The downside is commercial rock and roll recordings, and even worse pop ones, are revealed as stitched together collages. Some of it is unlistenable. But I don't have room for a lesser speaker that can make that kind of music fun.
Oh one thing of note. I crossed them over at 80 Hz. You get a lot below that and I think you compromise the mids by trying to drive the panels too hard.
It has taken a long time to get to know the needs of these speakers, you don't plop them in place and twist a bit here and there. The sound is magical when you get them right. I have to admit there were times I was lost and thinking perhaps I should move on. But I stuck with it, and I am glad I did. This is a remarkable speaker.
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