LOTUS HIFI
LOTUS Hifi
crikey .... crappy youtube but you can kinda tell this this sounds midnblowing
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Same, it maybe ribbons 
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LOTUS HIFI
LOTUS Hifi
errrrrrrr.... are they Summits ? I've heard them, they didn't make it to the shortlist
Hifi flattering music as well. Even a 3020/Diamonds sounds amazing playing some solo acoustic.
Hifi flattering music as well. Even a 3020/Diamonds sounds amazing playing some solo acoustic.
errrrrrrr.... are they Summits ? I've heard them, they didn't make it to the shortlist
No...exactly the opposite end of the Martin Logan price range, they're probably Vistas...(now discontinued?)
Because you can see the performers and your mind fills in the gaps. It's psychoacoustics again. I think that you can "kinda tell it sounds fabulous" because it looks great and you want it to. Ferraris look like they are doing 100mph when they have the handbrake on. It's the same thing.
LOTUS HIFI
LOTUS Hifi
Don't think about it too hard. I didn't post it up to start another infantile techno-aspergers-war.
It just sounds good. You can tell it has acres and acres of space and enourmous weight and dynamics, not the overblown fake kind with booming bass and lean over-etched detail but true life-sized natural heft ... I bet it was amazing in real life.... leave it at that.
dave
Plywood King
I just can't get around the tacky cell phone bling on the base unit. Ditch the gold feet, tips on the grills and port rings, maybe face the cabinet in walnut veener and stop fighting the wonderful alien-pod look from the fifities the design naturally achieves with its form.
Why do folks insist on lipsticking something that doesn't need it?
daytona600
Registered User
walked into mbl room at munich show once left after 30seconds hifi not mucical
S-Man
StrivingON
Don't think about it too hard. I didn't post it up to start another infantile techno-aspergers-war.
It just sounds good. You can tell it has acres and acres of space and enourmous weight and dynamics, not the overblown fake kind with booming bass and lean over-etched detail but true life-sized natural heft ... I bet it was amazing in real life.... leave it at that.
In that case I suggest you get yourself some Dell pc speakers and give up your hifi merry-go-round.
YNWOAN
100% Analogue
You can't tell anything at all regarding sound quality from that YouTube clip - it always makes me laugh when people post such.
However, I've heard MBL's quite a few times (including those in the vid) and I do really like them. Having said that, I've always heard them with MBL's own vast monster amps (the ones with the huge, ridiculous gauche, MBL badge on the top) and they have always been demonstrated well clear of any wall (more of a short walk to the nearest wall in fact).
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Essentially, I agree.
However, I've heard MBL's quite a few times (including those in the vid) and I do really like them. Having said that, I've always heard them with MBL's own vast monster amps (the ones with the huge, ridiculous gauche, MBL badge on the top) and they have always been demonstrated well clear of any wall (more of a short walk to the nearest wall in fact).
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Essentially, I agree.
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Teddy Ray
pfm Member
one of my good friends, a vet in Hawaii, owns an all mbl system, cabling is all synergistic research and MIT. he upgrades every year or something stupid.
a classic "im wealthy look at my wang" system. that isn't so bad in and of itself. some people measure their self worth by material possessions, money,etc..BUT
sound was underwhelming. the bass is nondescript/muddy, the source localization is not at all precise, etc
and so it goes with pretty much every "hifi" brand ive ever heard. they tend to ignore well established principles/science in favor of the mystical.
exceptions ive found are ATC, Adam, PMC, B+W, and others who not only serve the Hifi community but the pro audio folks as well(they tend not to suffer BS/magick gladly)
a classic "im wealthy look at my wang" system. that isn't so bad in and of itself. some people measure their self worth by material possessions, money,etc..BUT
sound was underwhelming. the bass is nondescript/muddy, the source localization is not at all precise, etc
and so it goes with pretty much every "hifi" brand ive ever heard. they tend to ignore well established principles/science in favor of the mystical.
exceptions ive found are ATC, Adam, PMC, B+W, and others who not only serve the Hifi community but the pro audio folks as well(they tend not to suffer BS/magick gladly)
Some people measure their self worth through possessions, others through posts on an audio/music forum. Live and let live I say.
Hifi brands ignore science - how do they even work then!
LOTUS HIFI
LOTUS Hifi
I love PFM, it's so provincial ... endearing you could say.
Reminds me a LOT of the old mazda MX5 forum where folk would log in every day just to slap eachother's backs and prove to one another that a mk1 Miata was better handling and more fun than a Ferrari Scuderia.
If Jack Torrance saw your axe, he'd be scared sh1tless !
i_should_coco
I am weasel
Heard the full on MBL system at Munich. What can I say...
Unbelievably average sounding. I really cannot understand what the fuss is about.
Certainly not awful, but completely underwhelming. And ugly beyond belief, it takes true marketing genius to make such lack of taste desirable (to others, obviously).
Unbelievably average sounding. I really cannot understand what the fuss is about.
Certainly not awful, but completely underwhelming. And ugly beyond belief, it takes true marketing genius to make such lack of taste desirable (to others, obviously).