Hola LesAuber and mullard88. Thanks for your kind words. Yes, I do like a lot ML. Not every model, but I do like more the new type of panel. It brings more dynamics and also has extended highs, making them more user friendly. It is a shame that the new CLX are so expensive but I assure you that they worth every penny. It is the best sound (to my liking), full of a lot of harmonic texture and super natural, like the human voice. To me, it is very difficult to reproduce it. They are not too good at lower bass, and you can see that at their specs, which are rated starting at 56Hz. At 30Hz you still have info, but a sub is a must. I have an internal debate of how many low frequency I must have in my system, judging this by specs...but when I listen to music, too many low frequency makes me feel that the bass player is next to me, and not at the stage. Only just a few musical instruments reproduce low frequency well, this is a Church organ, the harp, big drums,...a big piano concert (Steinway, Bosendorfer, Grand Piano, Yamaha, etc,) the last note is an A=27.5 Hz, and this note usually is never played, why? because the piano has a lot of difficult to reproduce it...we get a not clear sound, and our ears can not listen very good low frequency. So all what I need is a good clean bass, enough to have the bass player at the stage, and when i got this, I look at my Depth I sub volume knob, ant it is at around 2.5 and sometimes when I want to show off, the level I have it at 3.5!...(that would be around 9 if I use a clock, pointing to 7, volume know is all the way down)...so if you see, I am not a too heavy bass liker. Back to the CLX, I had one pair for 5 days with my system, and I can not forget what I did get...my ears are still missing them...the quality of the cymbals, as an example with Steve Daves track No 2, at the CD quality of silence, is one of the best cymbals recording that I have...and they were life like cymbals, having the musicians in front of me, with tons of expression and space...now back to my CLS, these babes are one of a kind. They are very difficult to drive, and perhaps, when they came out, the electronics were not too good as it is on these days. They love tubes, o yes, you can drive them with SS too. They like Aragon, Classe, Mark Levinson, Carver, Pass Labs, Jeff Rowland, Spectral, Blue Circle, etc...just to name a few...there are very good electronics out there!...so my advise is: Trust your ears! listen to live music unplugged, and move your speakers back to front, left to right, and search for that live image that your brain tells you to have...happy listening,
Roberto.