Martin Logan XT B100 & B10 Review (LIVE)

foreign hey everybody I had the uh the wrong screen showed up at first so this is Aaron from Aaron's Auto Corner if you've not you've been here before uh what I'm doing today is a live review and it's not something I typically do but I have decided to do it for some speakers maybe where you know I'm just not as thrilled or in this particular case I'm actually under the weather I'm recovering from covid and I'm not looking for any sympathy or pit or anything I'm just not feeling that great and haven't had time this week to sit down and edit a video in a fashion that I would generally like to do and also with that said you'll notice probably that I'm standing I've tweaked my back before I went on vacation and then when I went on vacation I went to a theme park and rode the veloci coaster at Universal Orlando like about a billion times with my daughter had a great time but I'm also paying the price for that so I've got covid I've got some crazy head fog going on and I've got a sore back right now so it's just kind of not a good day but I at least wanted to go ahead and get this review out there for you all who have been waiting because I've had these speakers for about two months now give or take and it's time so with that said what I want to start off with first is I just want to show you guys a picture of the two Martin Logan speakers that I'm going to be talking about today on the left is the Martin Logan motion V10 and then on the right is the Martin Logan motion XT B100 and you'll notice off the bat the size is quite different so the one on the left the B10 uses a five and a quarter inch mid-range mid woofer and then a shorter not a wave God but a shorter AMT type tweet or a ribbon tweeter the one on the right uses a six and a half inch mid woofer and a taller ribbon Tweeter and those are the main differences as far as Aesthetics they have the same kind of color combinations and things like that if you wanted to go buy them the Mart Logan B10 on the left is about 1200 per pair and The xtb 100 on the right is about sixteen hundred dollars per pair and what I'm going to do in this review it's going to be similar to some of my other Live reviews where when I do these when I create reviews I'll put them in a PowerPoint for myself and I use that as notes to help me remember things and just and discussion points and I'm not going to edit all of those little PowerPoint images out so you're going to see them in real time that's going to help me to kind of get through this a little bit more quickly so with that said I'm going to Dive Right In and uh we'll go ahead and start off with one factor here and actually before I do that let me look right at the camera and my head is in a total fog it's worse than it's been in a couple days I haven't been running a fever in a number of days so I'm coming down but I just feel stuffy so if I say something here that doesn't quite make sense just ask me in the comments and I'll try to address it it's very good probability that I'm going to say something that's Goofy and I'm probably gonna jumble some words here in there so just have some patience with me while I work my way through this okay what detail means to many reviewers the reason I'm talking about this is because after I listen to these speakers which I always listen to speakers first and then I measure them and then I'll look at the measurements and I'll compare to my notes about what I heard and then I'll usually go back and I'll listen to the speaker again I may apply Equalization to see if that resolves some of the concerns that I had or how well a speaker takes to Equalization and then after all of that I'll go and look at what other reviewers have to say because I'm curious you know like I don't spend a lot of time on it but I am curious and I noticed that I think literally every single review for either of these speakers and I'm not kidding when I say every single one they all use this term detail and I'm going to get on my high horse a little bit I'm you know being honest with with you all I hate that term because it's often used so incorrectly and this is a perfect example of a speaker where people really confuse detail with just a high frequency boost so I'm going to read from my notes here and I'll just show them to you all I say if you look around you'll find many reviews that call these speakers detailed however what this almost certainly means to those reviewers is simply that there's additional high frequency boost compared to a neutral speaker and that's the key compared to a neutral speaker that is more linear flat on axis smooth declining off-axis response n equals out if you test a speaker with a known quantity so if I test it with a test tone I expect it to replicate that test tone and not add any amplitude to it or decrease any amplitude from it that would mean then if it were doing something to that output that the speaker is adding its own color and in this particular case with these particular speakers these two particular speakers these are adding their own color okay the reason I believe many consider these to be detailed is because they bring out things in many songs that are not there and I noticed this right so a lot of the music that I listen to honestly isn't really detailed it's it's it's very varied but I don't listen to a lot of classical type music or acoustical solos and things like that that mini audio file types listen to that music create it's just not it's not my gig right it's not necessarily what I care to listen to so I listen to music that I've grown up with that I'm familiar with that I love and enjoy and then I can nod my head to that's part of the review process I mean if if I'm going to listen to music I'm unfamiliar with it doesn't really do anybody any good so with that said a lot of my music is not detailed on its own and what these speakers do is the high frequency boost adds a level of Quasi detail or fake detail or pseudo detail it's basically adding something to the recording that wasn't already there and it's my belief that that's why many reviewers confuse this speaker for being detailed when it's really not it's just a simple high frequency boost so the problem comes into play when you go and listen to these quote-unquote audio file type tracks and they are detailed there is a particular Nora Jones track I can't recall the name of I think it's waiting if I remember correctly and it's a great track and about Midway through there's a there's a really good piano solo but that piano solo will tear your head off if you're listening to a speaker that is bright and when I say tear your head off the keystrokes they are sharp and they're very Dynamic and I'm not sure how that piano was recorded but it's very few tracks that have that just sharp impact of the piano that that particular track has and so when I got around to that track I mean I already knew something wasn't right in terms of neutrality with these speakers but when I got around to that track it it was not pleasurable right that's because these speakers bring out more of the high frequency than is naturally there in the recording itself on the media itself okay so let me switch back over again and um so the problem isn't so much using the term detail to describe this it's just how misleading it can be right so if a reviewer says it's detailed and this is what I mean by detail that's okay because they should follow that up with and when I say detail I mean high frequency boost but they don't and that's an issue because people will go out and make purchase decisions based on this speaker being quote unquote detailed and then expecting something that's going to bring a new layer of resolution that's another key word and accuracy those things don't exist with high frequency boost right they again this an artificial boost to the music that you're listening to and it's not naturally there on the recording itself and I want to make it clear if you like that dude rock it I've got no problem with that but it needs to be understood that most of the time the vast majority of the time detail accuracy resolution love these air quotes are just high frequency boost keep that in mind when you watch other reviews and I'm I'm not knocking anybody it's just the correlation that's there and it's very evident when you have data or when you are experienced with building and tuning systems and have equalized them and understand like different frequencies rather than just saying something's detailed I can say seven eight kilohertz is boosted by a few DB or something like that right I've just I've done this long enough to understand the process and tuning systems so um while it sounds egotistical so hopefully it doesn't come off that way um I want to add a little bit of a maybe a heads up or a way that you can figure out if something is really detailed or if it's just boost a high frequency so I wrote this up and uh this was voice to text so if you're reading this there may be some Miss pillars you'll just have to forgive me but one way that you can tell is to listen for sibilance and sibilance is the sharp s sound and generally speaking sibilance is around like four to eight kilohertz you know it can go a little bit lower it can go a little bit higher but generally speaking that sharp s sound is going to be between about four to eight kilohertz depending on the person talking because everybody's mouth is a little bit different and if it's male or female so male sibilance is going to be usually a little bit lower in frequency female sibilance will be usually a little bit higher frequency but typically speaking you can expect it to be between four to eight kilohertz which is where the high frequency boost of most of these speakers is occurring or has already occurred meaning that between like two to three kilohertz what I find when they bring in the Tweeter they just it's just boosted and level right so there's that's that typical crossover region so when you get to that four to eight kilohertz you're already boosted you're not necessarily still boosting you're already boosted most of the time Okay so a way to tell the difference then is to familiarize yourself with various tracks male and female vocals and listen for the sibilance but do so on a reference system and when I say a reference system look I don't mean you have to run out and buy a ten thousand dollar set of speakers that are known to be great and I don't mean you have to go out and buy the 400 Cali lp6 V2 I think they're 400 great speakers if you wanted to use as a reference you could you could use something like I think the critical IEM headphones are considered a good neutral type reference I use I use these Sony headphones because so many people like listen to them all the time so that's just another source I don't consider them reference but it's a reference over the years if you've been doing this a while you've probably accumulated enough of a reference to understand that when you hear something that doesn't sound right it stands out and sibilance is one way to do that so if you hear extra sibilance from a speaker then it's probably not detailed it's probably just high frequency boost because you shouldn't hear extra anything again I think really the detail comes down from the music you're listening to and how neutral the speaker is so if the music you listen to has detail the speaker should do that if the music you listen to doesn't have detail the speaker shouldn't add that and that's the key difference okay so with all of that said I will jump into the actual review going on here and I've stolen some images so we're going to start off with the B2 the B10 I'm sorry and I've stolen some images from the internet hopefully nobody hits me with copyright claims and so you can see the front and then the back sides good looking speaker no issues there for me at all a one inch by 1.4 inch folded motion Tweeter and then a five and a quarter inch glass woven mid woofer okay so Pros good EQ ability really good Distortion for its size and some cons boosts The High Frequency you've already heard me go on about that for too long and multiple resonances and those are the interesting ones we'll see those in the data it's very interesting so we're going to look at the data all right so we've got the impedance plot first I'm showing some dips in the magnitude of impedance down to about 3.6 ohm above 80 Hertz so I'll call that out here the epdr is about 1.7 so these are I think they classify these as a nominal 5 ohm speaker uh AVR is maybe could drive it when it comes to stuff like that I don't use avrs a lot I really should probably go and buy like an a cheaper AVR just to test these kind of things out on and if I come up with some extra funds maybe I'll do that but I use a separate amplifier for all my listening tests and I put it on the 4 ohm Terminals and I'm good to go so now you know it's closer to a 4 ohm speaker nominal impedance to 5 ohms just kind of keep that in mind the overall sensitivity linearity is something that I wanted to also call attention to the sensitivity spec I believe is 93 decibels but they don't tell you how they get that they don't tell you if it's at 2.83 volt one meter they tell you if it's in room and I've done a whole video about sensitivity specs and how many times they can be very misleading if you look at this particular speaker's linearity you can see it does reach about 93 DB but that's at the peak of the high frequency whereas the overall mean sensitivity is about 86.4 decibels and let's see here the overall linearity of the speaker honestly it's not it's not terrible right like I've unfortunately somewhat conditioned myself to look at stuff like this and be like oh that's terrible right like because I've seen a lot of really good speakers and I've seen really good speakers that do better than this that are cheaper for example the emotiva B1 Plus but the emotivo B1 plus also does have a little bit of a high frequency tilt it's just not quite as much the one thing though that really stands out Beyond The High Frequency boost here is this guy right here and it's a resonance around about 700 800 Hertz or so give or take the F3 74 Hertz and the F10 at 54 Hertz meaning that these speakers will do bass but they're not going to do low Base by any stretch of the imagination use a subwoofer that should be pretty obvious let's keep going uh enclosure resonance that I called out elevated high frequency that I called out and this is the spinorama data which gives us a better idea of what the speaker is doing on and off axis and also gives us an idea of how eqable the speaker is going to be reasonable directivity indicates ability to EQ the speaker so what I'm looking for here is are these lines pretty linear and when I say linear I'm not talking flat sometimes I mean to say flat but in this particular case I'm not talking flat when I say linear I just mean is there a line can you draw a line on that and it would take a separate video to really delve into that so for right now we're just going to have to go with the fact that I'm telling you this information that this looks pretty linear through here other than this resonance so any either thing look everything in this range except for this can be equalized so if you wanted to bring up the mid-range a little bit or say you wanted to bring down this bass boost to touch just for whatever reason you could do that but more importantly we're going to look at the higher frequency so we see the linearity of the directivity uh it's pretty good through the upper treble region until you get to around here so that indicates there's going to be a little bit of trouble equalizing this particular area but then we're coming back down and maybe that's a little bit more equalizable and then we're flattening out so it's going to be a little bit of trouble to equalize this particular area but as a whole as a whole this speaker can be equalized to sound better than it is out of the box and the reason I really wanted to point this out is one of my patrons brought this up he said that he owns the I think it's the f200 and he made the case that dude Martin Logan knows what they're doing surely they've got measurement capability so most likely they designed this speaker for this reason and then you can use EQ and and he is absolutely right my personal issue with that is you a speaker shouldn't exist that I have to EQ within reason right I mean there's power speakers and and things of that nature that come with DSP built into them and they're equalized but I don't want a speaker that has a high frequency bump personally speaking so then the other question that comes into play is well what happens if you turn the speaker off axis okay and when I say off access I have a whole video that hopefully you've seen it but if not make sure you go watch that about aiming speakers so if I have the speaker on axis facing directly at me at zero degrees this is the estimated interim response in Black if I tow the speakers out 30 degrees so basically I'm sitting in my stereo triangle and the speakers aren't facing toward me but they're just facing like parallel with the back wall behind them that would be 30 degrees out we can see that really not a lot changes especially in this particular area in this sibilance area and Ooey boy are these speakers siblets and I just don't like that I'm very sensitive to sibilance because it's something I've trained myself to listen to and you really don't have to train yourself to listen to I guess I should say that I've listened and I've tuned a lot of systems to the point where the things that aggravated me back then really aggravate me now enclosure resonances are another thing that it's like once you hear it you can't unhear it and so I have a real personal issue with sibilance I can't ignore it so it's got to be EQ down at the least or I'm just not going to buy it period okay this is a trend line that I like to provide to give you an idea of okay so what's the slope of the estimated interim response and we also want that to be linear whether or not and again when I say linear I'm talking about just a line not flat whether or not that line slope is maybe not as shallow or maybe it is very directive more shallow that's going to depend on a few different things room preference Etc but I try to draw this line by looking through the mid-range and seeing what's the general trend of the mid-range because that's where the lot of the meat is right that's what I want to hear and respective to that we can see that there's a strong resonance around 800 Hertz and then there's about a four to five DB bump over the mid-range in the treble and that's a problem for me again you can equalize this particular area down but simply turning them off axis by 30 degrees as you can see here doesn't fix the issue and actually it makes things worse because it brings down that upper mid-range lower treble region 30 degrees off axis but you'll notice that this sibilance area around four or five six kilohertz doesn't change so there's a problem in the directivity due to the crossover okay I keep saying okay just forgive me this is the horizontal radiation and then I added a note here this this is really cool to see just as a data junkie as an analyst somebody who's into this kind of stuff to see the enclosure resonances I'm calling attention to these red lines that are going around the speaker now these red lines on a standard bookshelf speaker or any monopole type speaker where it's mostly forward firing above maybe like four or 500 Hertz if you ever take those red lines shouldn't be there those red lines those red lines indicate that at about 800 Hertz or so you know depending exactly where you are there's energy radiated from the speaker not just to the front but also to the side and to the rear but notice that at about 140 degrees or so 130 degrees 140 degrees there's less Red Energy so what I did was I did some investigation and it turns out that these are sidewall resonances and the reason that you don't have those resonances coming from the back right back here is because those are the back Corners where there's a joint right the corners of the enclosure are glued together or screwed together probably glued glitter I'm sure and there's extra rigidity there so there's not really as much resonance that's carried from the panel to those little Corners so as an analyst I saw that I was like that's so cool to see how you can get data that will tell you what's going on and without the clipple near field scanner I wouldn't have the resolution of seeing something like that I just and I just dig that kind of stuff okay so we're gonna look at the vertical radiation and I've made a note here sweet spots within about plus or minus 10 degrees and I did a horrible job of putting that that guy there but you can see that yeah within about plus or minus 10 degrees of the reference axis which in this case is the Tweeter obviously uh you're okay but if you go beyond that either way then you're really going to suffer Timbre issues and tonality issues in that crossover region Okay so Distortion is actually one good thing about the speaker 86 DB everything is below one percent one percent is negative 40 DB and then at 96 DB at one meter everything is still below three percent and that's pretty good I mean you're talking a speaker with a five and a quarter inch Midwife or mid-range I mean that's pretty good at 96 DB to not most of the time what I'm seeing is there's a little bit of peaking going on here and this speaker maintains that pretty well that's kind of cool this is the multi-tone Distortion and we can see it does hit at about 96 decibels over three percent Distortion in the upper mid range I can't tell you that I heard that because I was so focused on the high frequency lift that drove me insane that any mid-range Distortion that might have been audible wasn't even on my radar at that point if you add a crossover to this speaker and you cut it off and don't let it play below 80 Hertz that mid-range Distortion if I switch back and forth does come down to a degree I also wanted to point out that you'll see some strong spikes here that so these are part of the room because these are not fully anechoic measurements these are done closer in the near field there's going to be room effects I know that and I've got a whole video talking about multi-tone measurements and and I describe if you go look at the noise floor you can expect to see a correlation between these spikes and these spikes so when you see those just understand that those probably aren't real in terms of distortion when you see a spike like that but the rest of the trends is kind of what you're looking for here oh we're going to look at compression next and overall compression here for a speaker this size bookshelf speaker this size really not that bad I mean I've seen better for sure but I've also seen worse so it's not terrible and I wanted to add this table up here to give you a better idea of you know this 86 decibels at one meter looks pretty good so compared to 76 decibels you're nearly not losing any dynamic range out of the speaker but what's that at four meters in the typical room with another speaker that's about 83 decibels so you can expect to get 83 decibels uh it's about 76 so about 10 DB of good dynamic range at 83 decibels in the seated position at 4 meters and then you can use this table to kind of figure out where you would be at depending on distance versus output okay get a sip of water real fast now we're going to look at the XT B100 speaker the bigger brother and here's some notes on a six and a half inch woofer and a bit larger Tweeter 1600 per year Pros same good EQ ability and good distortion cons pretty much the same except in this case this guy has even more high frequency than the B10 so the B10 is actually a little bit more neutral and again this speaker has multiple resonances data similar story as before impedance let's just say it's roughly around 4 ohm I think the nominal impedance is probably five ohm for the speaker as well uh the sensitivity spec on this speaker is also at about 93 decibels I believe I measure it close to about 87 decibels so maybe about One DB more than the other half a DB more but not a lot more in terms of sensitivity through the mid-range but if you go look at the high frequency above two kilohertz they're at about 90 decibels and then 93 DB at the very highest peak so this is a much worse performer in regards to linearity this the B10 is a better speaker in regards to linearity F3 is at 66 F10 is at 49 so there's really not a lot of additional bass extension out of this particular speaker you're going to still want to use a subwoofer if you go with the B100 over the B10 and I just called out some of the same notes enclosure resonance elevated high frequency but if you go back and compare directly you'll note that the enclosure resonance on this speaker is a little bit lower in frequency that's because the dot dot the diameter but the dimensions are larger so when you expand something to a larger Dimension you move the resonant frequency down if you have an enclosure resonance or panel vibration if it's larger or the dimensions are longer then you're going to have that frequency of resonance move down in frequency so that's why we see it just at a different frequency and we expect to see it at a different frequency if it was at the same frequency it would be a measurement error uh let's see here this is the cea 2010 2034 data again reasonable directivity and actually I don't know that I'd say it's better it's different in terms of directivity than the B10 but it's I'd say it's on par I mean you'd really have to get in the weeds and start splitting hairs but I'd say it's on par so you can equalize the speaker to get rid of some of the issues however I do want to point out that when most of us use EQ there's only so many Taps that are available and um let me get rid of this when I say taps I mean like EQ bands if you've used a manual DSP yourself and you know you've got you started off with the 31 band graphic equalizer and then they brought in the parametric equalizer and you were limited to like 10 bands or something and now they've got some dsps with 100 and something different bands of equal you that you can go through and you can set the frequency and you can set the bandwidth the Q as much as you want to your heart's content right but when I see a speaker that does what this one's doing it has so many variables this is going to have to be queued and then you might want to try to fix that but you're probably going to want to fix that that's some sort of a resonance or diffraction effect that that see all these little bumps in here it's different when you're trying to equalize a speaker that has just a high frequency boost you could use a shell filter or you can use some level adjustment something along those lines to bring that high frequency down but with this particular speaker you can't do that you've got to a bring the high frequency down and then you got to fix these little individual Peaks to linearize them as well and that's why I have a problem when we talk about oh but you could equalize the speaker or I can use Odyssey or direct or or any number of different EQ programs to fix the speaker yeah you can but why not just start off with a more neutral speaker to begin with and then add some profile to it that's my personal opinion so this is the estimated interim response of the B100 zero degrees and 30 degrees and then I added the trend line in here and this one was harder because look if I try to add the trend line to the mid-range then then this high frequency is like plus or minus I'm not sorry plus 8 DB or so it's almost honestly there's some subjectivity to where I add the line but you've got the data you can also draw your own correlations if I drop this line down then the Delta between this range or this pointer is and up here is about Plus 8 DB as it is where I drew this guy because I was trying to capture some of this mid-range it's about plus or minus three sorry plus three to plus five decibels so use that line just kind of as a general guide but make sure that you look at it yourself and draw your own conclusions there this is the horizontal radiation and it's the same thing that we saw with the B10 where there's some sort of resonance is going on here and I really not much left to say about that I mean we've got enclosure Reds that's going on in the speaker this is the vertical response and you know I called out this plus or minus 10 thing which is very similar to the B10 but I'm gonna go back and look see there's still this red right here there's a resonance coming from this back panel vertically that's Illuminating and causing the speaker to resonate so there are a couple issues with this speaker that are going to be hard to remedy the resonance being one and the high frequency non-linearity being another okay so we're going to look at Distortion now 86 decibels hey that was good 96 decibels again hey that looks actually pretty dang good multi-tone a little bit higher in the mid-range area again if I kind of just mentally ignore these spikes where the noise floor is a little bit higher than it should be I'm testing in a room these are not anechoic measurements for this my spinorama frequency response is all anecote but Distortion measurements are not okay so if I add a crossover to it and that brings down the mid-range Distortion a little bit not a whole lot but it brings it down compression actually kind of went the other way so this woofer is adding Distortion uh as it's just basically being plowed into a little bit maybe too much and we can see also that there's this resonance that's kind of showing up again here in the compression data find that interesting and I added this near fill components measurement to show you all that the resonances are not a byproduct or what I'm looking for here like a an issue with the measurements like when I do this stuff sometimes I run into things that are my own fault or there's a there's an issue in the measurement and I have to go and try to figure out how am I going to get around this thing right is it is it the room do I need to add more measurement points do I add to add do I need to do more averaging stuff like that I'll take speakers outside sometimes just to make sure that the measurements that I'm going to provide are correct so I'm adding this near fill to show you all when you measure the the port which is in red there's a strong resonance that show up and they're harmonics of each other to some degree now most of the time I'm not sure if it's the port resonance or if it's an enclosure resonance but if you take the time to do the math and look at the frequency you can determine that these are enclosure resonance is due to the dimensions of the the internal dimensions of the actual speaker itself so you can do the math and verify that if you want to kind of wraps up the individual reviews and I just wanted to make some notes here and uh I'm Gonna Leave This up for a second comparison B10 has better linearity and less boosted high frequency similar directivity which means similar EQ ability but I think the B10 has it has the B100 beat there both have enclosure resonances the B100 has a slightly wider horizontal radiation and I mainly noticed that clear the mid-range upper mid range so like the two to three kilohertz area where I noticed that to be more of a factor in my listening so that that's a good thing for me personally speaking similar Distortion I mean the the B100 is a larger woofer but at the levels that I was testing they weren't so different enough to make me say oh yeah the B100 is clearly the winner I would say if you were a fan of Mark Logan then I personally would recommend going with the the B10 and I would say that 400 over the B100 and use that to get a subwoofer from like SBS monoprize RSL somebody like that because no matter which speaker you wanted to go with the B100 or the B10 they don't neither one of them get low enough to do bass right you're going to have to have a subwoofer so I would just save the money I'd get the B10 and I call it a day there personally speaking let's see here My overall impression I know I didn't talk about my listening sessions that much because I'm I'm reviewing two speakers at a time and it just takes me longer to get into the listening session aspect so I just kind of keep this one more data driven for now My overall impression of these speakers was again they were just too bright Towing them off axis didn't help at all you can EQ them so that's a that's a positive they're a nice looking speaker if you're into that if you the the kind of funky thing about it was most ribbon tweeters are thinner they're not as wide compared to a dome Tweeter and generally speaking ribbon tweeters are going to have better horizontal radiation this particular one doesn't have I say better broader radiation is what I mean to say this particular speaker doesn't have broader radiation than a typical Dome tweeter on a flat baffle and the reason for that is this particular Tweeter is waveguided so it is controlled dispersion to some degree if you put the Tweeter on a flat baffle it would pretty much certainly go Plus 90 degrees off to one side minus 90 degrees off the other side so 180 degrees probably up until about eight to ten kilohertz and then it would start to narrow up maybe not as certainly not as much as a dome Tweeter but because they put it in a waveguide they basically took that plus or minus 90 degrees like if the tweeter's firing up and you did like this that plus or minus 90 degrees that you have here for the speaker to go 180 degrees is constricted so they bring it in so they basically say all right I want to I want to manage that plus or minus 90 degrees and I'm going to shrink that down to about plus or minus 50 plus or minus 60. so that's why the speaker doesn't get quite as wide as you may have expected it to when you saw that it had a ribbon Tweeter same thing I did it's the same thing I did uh another speaker that has a ribbon Tweeter I've already mentioned it the emotiva B1 Plus some of you may be seen hot speakers like 300 it can't be good now that speaker's really freaking good it's I mean it really is the B2 plus is another option it's a little bit bigger but I personally just prefer the neutrality more of the B1 plus so that I would say that if you have the ability and you love you just love Martin Logan's stuff order whatever from wherever and if you want to use one of my generic affiliate links cheap plug below generic affiliate links below uh do that but also maybe try the emotiva B1 plus see if you like it because if you do You're Gonna Save like 300 no 12 emotivo B1 plus it's about 300 a pair so you've got B10 to 1200 so that's 900 in savings or B100 at 1600 so that's what is that 16 minus three thirteen hundred dollars in savings um also while I'm at this I forgot to mention that the b10s actually came directly from Martin Logan so I want to say thank you to the gentleman who loaned these to me for review I appreciate that the b100s came from a dealer uh Ryan had Ascend acoustics and um they're put on an M wave session so he asked me if I would actually I volunteered to measure but he was like completely on board with me measuring all the speakers they're going to do for a blind test at mwave which is in like two weeks so if you guys are interested and you're in that Kansas City area make sure you check out just Google mwave and I'll try to remember to put a link in the description below but thank you to Ryan for sending those out to me and allowing me to review them oh and now the cheap plug stuff comes in where I say hey if you want to support me you can go to patreon.com Aaron's audio corner and you can support me that way uh if you want to use my generic affiliate links I've got them all in the description below and this is what it looks like just click on one of those links type in whatever it is you want to buy doesn't matter to me I don't care what you buy I do get a small percentage of that Amazon's like four percent um some of these other guys it's going to be a little bit more but whatever you want to buy Electronics or deodorant or whatever I don't care that would be appreciated too I think that's it for oh you know what I was saying all that stuff but here's what the links look like in the description below okay sorry um so yeah that does it for the review I'll check a few of these questions down here but I'm just like I'm feeling like I got run over by a truck so I'm probably not gonna be around for a lot longer um Simon a with the Super Chat five pounds man I appreciate that dude that's that's very much appreciated that's awesome my daughter there's a new Harry Potter Wii game that came out I guess recently so she's wanting to get that so I'll definitely put that toward that I appreciate that man thank you um I missed a lot of questions here let's see okay um sorry if you guys don't mind bearing with me while I flip through these and see if anything just jumps out at me okay y'all are funny okay um yeah I think that's going to do it for this review I've got some other stuff coming up I would like to talk about why it's taking me so long to do some other reviews but I think I may scare some people off um but I've got the JBL 4329 piece that are coming up for review Thanks to John Sherman from screening room AV out in Colorado he he helped me get those either he sent them or he had his rep from JBL sent them to me but regardless thanks to John for for getting those out to me those speakers are freaking amazing and when I talked earlier about detail and I referenced the Norah Jones track when I was listening to that track which is waiting w-a-i-t-i-n-g I'm glad I spell that right I mentioned the detail in the piano because it's in the recording and even with those speakers being neutral that recording is still sharp right and to me that's detail and it's in the recording and it's not false detail or fake detail which grabs your attention on the showroom floor and then you're like oh man you get home and you listen for more than a few hours and your ears are bleeding right I mean that bleeding is certainly hyperbole but it often is the case where and I've done it myself you know as as somebody who's set systems up and tuned them you know maybe if I've been listening for a while my high frequency sensitivity has gone down or something like that or I feel like you ever listen for so long that you feel like something's plugged in your ears like I mean I literally feel that way at points over my career right whatever of doing this and I will tune a system and then I'll go back and listen to it the next day and I'm like what in the world was I thinking because it just tears my head off out the gate that's an example of if you just don't know any better or maybe if you've been listening too long you may become less sensitive to it but often what I find is initially when you have a speaker that has this boost to high frequency it may sound enticing because it's adding something to the music that wasn't there before and you're thinking that's cool but as you go through it becomes more of an annoyance rather than a feature right it's like if you're in the software world you're probably familiar with it's not a bug it's a feature right like it's kind of akin to that hey Randall thank you man I appreciate that I hadn't talked to you in a while um but I appreciate that man that's that's awesome I'll definitely put that toward the uh the Harry Potter Hogwarts Nintendo Wii fund for my daughter so all right y'all well I'm going to end it here I do appreciate you all watching I'm sorry if you've asked questions and I just didn't get to them I just honestly I feel like junk and um I would like to go lay down for a little bit so I will talk to you all later if you have any questions feel free to ask them in the comments below and uh we'll see you all in the next one take care peace

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Length: 42min 58sec (2578 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 09 2023