Given the massive heat sinks I was expecting these to at least run warm, but was surprised to find that the temperature remained fairly constant regardless of load.
When powered up and active the Mark Levinson logo glows red. Once wired up there's a main power switch on the rear panel and a standby button on the front. This makes it very difficult to route the speaker cables away from the power cord as the pig tails on the Transparent cables are short and very stiff. In general I'm not fond of the arrangement of the connections on the rear panel as the speaker terminals are too close to the power connection. 33 and 33H in person in the past these look downright small in comparison.Ĭonnection is pretty straightforward with power, speaker, and signal connections arranged vertically in that order from the bottom of the amplifier up. From the exterior build quality appears to be excellent with little ringing from the heat sinks and absolutely no flex in the chassis. They're about 9 inches wide by 20 inches tall and 20 inches deep. The 53s aren't as physically massive as I had expected, but they are still heavy at 135lbs each. Speaker cables are Transparent Reference MM2 Interconnects are all Transparent Reference XL MM2 (balanced) I use Transparent PLMM MM1 cables for the VTLs (top end, one generation old), but availability forced me to use PowerLink Super (mid range, current generation).Īs it stands now the system is setup as follows:īasis 2800 table / Vector 4 arm / Air Tight PC-1 Supreme cartridge Second, the VTLs use 20A IEC power connections and the 53s use 15A. I'm trying to keep this in mind as I perform my evaluation. The only cables that my dealer had which were calibrated for the ML 53s were a pair of Reference MM (which is the next step up in the Transparent line). After discussing the evaluation with Transparent it was decided that the speaker cables should be changed out as well given the fact that the network specs for the VTLs are vastly different than the 53s.
My speaker cables are Transparent Reference XL MM2 and are calibrated for the VTLs. As I was coming from the VTL MB-450s I needed to make a couple of other changes in addition to the amplifiers. I picked up the ML 53s from my dealer yesterday and loaded them into the system last night. Rather than tack listening impressions onto the end of my prior post I decided to start up a new one to discuss the ML 53s now that I'm gaining some first-hand experience.
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