HI Tbone: There is on 14July a thread on CLSIIz the bigger brother of AeriusI. You did not mentioned your roon size. Try some cables first if your gear are already hi-end. your proposed change of pre/pwr amps is one BIG drastic step to risk unless of course its for your birthday present. good luck.
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?