Own the SL3's.Power them with a Meridian 557 power amp(200 watts into 8 ohm and 350 into 4 ohm)My pre-amp is a Meridian 502.Power Cables are Electraglide Reference with Fat Boy on amp. Interconnects are JPS/MillerSound. My line conditioner is ByBee Signature with Delta Lab Power cords. Transparent, I'll say!! The Aerius needs good source components with Great cables. At least 2.5 feet from back wall and lots of space on the sides. Toe in only slightly with the spike feet.I have found that cables particularly Power cables make the best improvement! Even over my $4000 CD Player. Have fun and enjoy the ML's.
Martin Logans are too damn transparent!
I have a pair of Aerius i and they are pretty much as transparent as the other Martin Logan's. Theres just "less" of the sound in LF and in dyanamic capability. But I've been trying all sorts of electronics with it and I'm not throughly satisfied. I know I love the speakers so their staying. I want a system that sounds detailed airy, precise yet able to sound all the sound on a a referance recording or chesky records cd, yet decently good with most recordings (most of the overly bright pop recordings). I was thinking of getting a Conrad-Johnson Premier 11a amp and Premier 14 preamp with either a Audio Research Cd2 or Classe CDP-1. Any other suggestions of what other people have used to achieve a succesfull system with Martin Logans?