Cambridge CX-A81
I bought what may have been , if not the last pair of Spatial M3 Turbo S’s, then certainly one of the last few. I had been aiming for that speaker and saving for some time (I’m a sub-$40,000 earner, so I can’t just go out and buy whenever, if you can feel me), so at work I would get online and look at audio stuff in my downtime and I noticed right away when Spatial put the new stuff up on their store. I called the following morning and spoke with Clayton himself for about twenty minutes. What a great guy! I told him about my situation and how I had been saving and he just asked me what finish I wanted them in. I told him black would be cool but anything would work, he told me he had a pair, knocked $200 bucks off the cost and they were on their way! I live in the Denver area and he explained to me why he didn’t make the show (2019) because he was so busy getting the new series online. The RMAF was fantastic, but Clayton was missed.
I broke in the M3’s out in the garage where my Cronus Magnum amp usually plays through a pair of 1986 Cornwalls, and to be honest, even though I had them out in a lot of space, they never thrilled me. Lately, I have been moved to implement a more modern, steaming system in the house, so out went the wife’s KEF’s, in came the M3’s into a system where a modest Marantz amp and cd player have been for years.
I purchased the Cambridge, which I couldn’t find a bad review of anywhere. I figured if it wasn’t up to my absolute standards, at least it was just the living room system.
What a synergy these two products have! (I had spent the time to take my Cronus apart and set it to a four ohm tap and I never got the results I’m getting in my living room with the CX-A81). It’s a tad forward, and a ’tad’ like you have your treble and bass settings at 3:00, but damn is it fun. It’s grip is phenomenal for this price.It makes you want to listen to stuff you know by heart, and I think that’s the clincher.
My new dream speaker has become the M3 Saphire (ten years ago, you couldn’t convince me there was anything even remotely close to the Klipschorn. The K-horn, which I heard for the first time when I was fifteen, was the end-all reproduction of live sound). That’s the biggest compliment I can pay to the M3’s.
I broke in the M3’s out in the garage where my Cronus Magnum amp usually plays through a pair of 1986 Cornwalls, and to be honest, even though I had them out in a lot of space, they never thrilled me. Lately, I have been moved to implement a more modern, steaming system in the house, so out went the wife’s KEF’s, in came the M3’s into a system where a modest Marantz amp and cd player have been for years.
I purchased the Cambridge, which I couldn’t find a bad review of anywhere. I figured if it wasn’t up to my absolute standards, at least it was just the living room system.
What a synergy these two products have! (I had spent the time to take my Cronus apart and set it to a four ohm tap and I never got the results I’m getting in my living room with the CX-A81). It’s a tad forward, and a ’tad’ like you have your treble and bass settings at 3:00, but damn is it fun. It’s grip is phenomenal for this price.It makes you want to listen to stuff you know by heart, and I think that’s the clincher.
My new dream speaker has become the M3 Saphire (ten years ago, you couldn’t convince me there was anything even remotely close to the Klipschorn. The K-horn, which I heard for the first time when I was fifteen, was the end-all reproduction of live sound). That’s the biggest compliment I can pay to the M3’s.
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