Hello, Whatjd. I've owned Newform Research r-8-2's since sept93. I prefered them to martin logans of that age in the showroom. I didn't have the MartinL's in my livingroom. The Newform are easy to drive, the ribbons do take awhile to break-in but they are very smooth. They are great in a hifi or a home theatre rig. Very revealing of everything, cables, electronics,every change is easily identified but they remain very musical, very fast. You can drive them with an integrated or with high end separates. I did find Red dawn speaker wire too zingy with the very fast ribbons. I've had good results with audioquest, monster sigma and acoustic zen, my fave.....also John Meyer of Newform is an excelent chap to talk to. Hope this has helped. Feel free to ask me anything I might have missed. good luck, Bluenose
