Question....Once these are in place attached to the speaker, if you press down on the top of the speaker cabinet, does the speaker sink down closer to the floor kind of like a shock absorber would if you were compressing it?
Hi, it might compress slightly, but I tried pressing down and could not sense or feel any movement.
Btw, the supplied torque wrench that you can see in the first set of pics in this thread is to "tighten the tensioners" in each speaker.
There are 8 holes on the back of the speaker where you use the torque wrench to "tune the cabinet". There is a specific torque value that you use to precisely align the internal structure of the M3. You do this "adjustment" about once every 10 days or so to keep the internal tensioners at an exact setting. Do this for the first few hundred hours while the speakers are breaking in, then maybe once every six months.
It's like "tuning an instrument". Once set to the proper values the results are literally astounding. Hard to get my head around the sound at this point....again "Resolution with Soul".
After talking with Peter from Magico today about "why" the combo of the Vitus SM102's and the M3's takes it all to a different level my understanding has changed. Talking about it yesterday with Mike from AS we thought "efficiency" was the key. It seems that efficiency might be a contributor but the main difference maker is probably due to a more gentle impedance curve vs. other Magico models. It's this gentle curve (not published yet) that is allowing the amp(s) to REALLY breathe.