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That is a tough comparison. These are two completely different speakers. The MBL's radiate 360 degrees, in every direction. This gives the listener an "enveloped surround sound - large hall" sort of effect. The speakers completely disappear, giving no indication of their location. Very spacious and lovely sound. Good bass and dynamics throughout the frequency range. A very smooth character to this fine speaker.
The Spatial Masters give a totally different presentation, as they throw a much tighter controlled pattern. You get a more "locked in position" feel for each instrument and performer. The sound seems more direct and dynamic, because of the use of pro drivers. The use of a compression driver gives more snap and pop to the mix.......giving it more of a live performance amplified sound. This is mostly very appealing. On bad recordings, they can kind of exaggerate your misery. The bass is awesome on these speakers, being very tight and full sounding (room dependent of course). You will not need a subwoofer with the Spatials.
I myself relate just a bit more to the Spatials, as I mixed live bands for over 30 years. The pro drivers make my hair stand up more often.....as my brain recognizes/relates their sound to more of a live event presentation. I was around live music 5 to 7 days a week, for a very long time. So I do not relate to most home speakers. They do not sound "live" to me. That live sound is drilled into my memory forever. But I imagine the MBL's would be better appreciated by most audiophiles. They have a very enticing, involving sound.....that is easy to listen to for long periods. You can shape their sound with IC's, speaker cables, etc. pretty easily. For 25k......you can enjoy these mint rosewood beauties I have. I am in the process of becoming an audio dealer, hoping to represent just a few world class lines of gear. The MBL's unfortunately, will not fit into that scenario. But I would choose to live with the MBL's for the rest of my life, if pressed to make a choice. Hope this helps answer your questions.
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I've had both units for just a few days, so it's way too early for me make final comments. I can tell that these are both very competent pieces of gear. The Lumin is a sheer joy to get up and running, and has great sound. And I love the I-Pad app they developed for this unit. They have really done their homework.
But this Lampi 7 unit is already fleshing out an insane amount of detail, and "true to source" tone and timbre. I'm even impressed with the redbook playback. Most of the excitement is usually about the DSD playback of the Lampi.....but the redbook is great as well. Of course, it was a pain in the butt to get all the settings in my server just right, so it would begin playback. But the effort was worth what I'm hearing now !! I think this may be a long-term keeper, as it already has shown immence capability.
I am having a 60hz. hum noise issue on the Lampi, as I turn the volume up. DSD music always has to be turned up to a much higher volume on the preamp for some reason. So I will be diving into that issue tomorrow.
I called my Lumin Distributor for you. He said to check out the Netgear Universal Wifi Adapter for TV/BluRay. $50. Plug Lumin right into that. The Netgear device joins your existing wireless network and you're good to go.
That's what the Lumin distributor uses this personally. He said, "I've had absolutely no drop outs". He has the "N300" version and said it works like a charm, but said there is N600 and N900 too. Not sure of the differences, but he has the N300 and said it works like a charm.
He said another good one is:
http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WA...135&sr=8-9&keywords=wi-fi+to+ethernet+adapter
As for Tidal and QoBuz and others, Lumin is working on it RIGHT NOW to integrate into the app. They are projecting less than 90 days to have it all fully integrated.
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thanks a lot
In addition to Mike's good suggestions, I'd like to add that there are a lot of WiFi devices that support a WiFi "Client Mode: Gives wired-only devices access to an existing Wi-Fi networks". Most, if not all, TP-Link travel routers support that and have the benefit of being physically small. However, those small-sized routers have poor WiFi from personal experience.
If your main router supports dual band 5GHz / 2.4GHz, consider getting a WiFi client to Ethernet device that supports dual band 5GHz / 2.4GHz too.
If your main router supports dual band 5GHz / 2.4GHz, consider getting a WiFi client to Ethernet device that supports dual band 5GHz / 2.4GHz too.
The WNCE2001 (N300) is the basic version that supports 2.4GHz only. The WNCE3001 (N600) supports dual band 5GHz / 2.4GHz. The WNCE4004 (N900) has 4 Ethernet ports (i.e. you can connect 4 devices to it) and can make use of 3x3 antenna if your main router belongs to this class, but I believe this is overkill for the purpose of connecting a single device for music streaming only.
wklie - thanks for the additional info! [emoji106][emoji106]
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Great stuff !