I owned the Prodigy's and loved them with tubed gear. I had them hooked to a Mac MC2000 and a Hovland preamp. I used Alpha Core Goerts M12 Veracity speaker cables (very inexpensive & good)and had a mix of IC's. My CD player was a Sony SCD-1, which is also quite good, feeding a Dodson DA217MKIID for redbooks. The combo worked quite well and was very musical, & with quality recordings, magical. The new Mac MC 2102 tubed amp is quite reasonable, especially used. See if you can get a dealer in your area to let you audition a good tubed amp & preamp combo, especially if you find the Prodigy's a bit dry. With the right gear, the Prodigy's are terrific.
what will make the greatest differance in sound.
I can only replace one item at this time. My system consists of Martin Logan Prodigy speakers, ML 336, Monster 2.4 speaker cables, Magnum Dynalab Tuner, Monster interconnects, arc LS1 preamp, California Audio Labs icon/mkii cd player. Feed-back from an earlier forum suggested I replace the preamp, cables and cd player. But which one first? I am considering a ML preamp 380s at some point, would like to know if this will improve the currant configuration and sound?