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Hi Cougarboy
How are you getting on with your MLs? Went to one of the launch days for the new Quad speaker last Saturday (very nice BTW) and almost by accident listened to the Quads through both valve and solid state ampicfication. The solid state 909 monoblocks were excellent but to my ears the speakers sounded far far better with valves (Quad II 40s).
Anyway, popped up to the excellent Sounds of Music in East Sussex to see what valves might do for my ML Aerius's. Swapping the biamped 909s for a biwired pair of II 40 valve monoblocks with valve pre has transformed a wonderful speaker to one that has me saying "Good Grief" or "B****y Hell" at the end of each piece of music. Why? better bass, better dynamics and much more of a feeling of being there. Perhaps a case of listening to musicians playing music rather than just listening to music.
Of course this is just my response and others would no doubt think differently of the comparison, but food for thought none the less.
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