MBL 101e Rosewood ,Trades OK, Worldwide Shipping

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Rare Rosewood option ($5,000 extra) MBL 101E Mk1 speakers with grills and original wood crates and packing in excellent cosmetic and operational condition, serial numbers are 178927 & 179027. As nice a pair as I have seen and just stunning in Rosewood - far nicer than the stock mundane black finish - these speakers look like works of art ... and sound amazing too. YES we are open to trade-ins, YES we will ship worldwide, YES we can help you find a way to own these speakers ...

REVIEW:
Jonathan Valin of THE ABSOLUTE SOUND magazine wrote:
" MBL’s stunning-looking, four-way, omnidirectional Radialstrahler References simply do it all: a treble like Maggie’s ribbons, a midrange like SoundLab’s ’stats, bass like Nearfield’s eight 18" subwoofers, soundstaging and coherence like Kharma’s RM 3.2s, dynamics like Avantgarde’s Trios, and a “disappearing act” second to none. To top all this off, the 101 Es have more lifelike presence than any speaker JV has heard in several decades — actually sounding “fool-you” real at select moments on select cuts—and are more convincingly stereophonic listened to off-axis than anything else around".

Michael Fremer of STEREOPHILE magazine wrote:
"The 101Es had an effortlessness, openness, transient clarity, and crystallinity that set them apart from all others I've heard—including electrostats. On a congested recording such as the Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St. (LP, German EMI Electrola pressing), the MBL's separated out the instrumental strands with unusual ease, and portrayed the strummed acoustic guitars with a visceral believability I'd never before experienced.   

Lesser speakers bury Ian Stewart's piano throughout the album's four sides, and while that hasn't happened with any of the gear reviewed here over the past five years, never has that piano popped as cleanly as it did through the 101Es. Mick Jagger's vocals on much of this set are purposefully recessed, but what the MBL's managed to do was place his voice in the most convincing three-dimensional backdrop I've yet heard from this recording.

The velvety richness of the Rockport Technologies Merak II/Sheritan II combo (reviewed in the September 2004 issue) was pleasing, but the MBL's greater speed, transparency, and transient delicacy was like adding a $15,000 sports handling package to a softly sprung boulevard cruiser. I've been listening to "Sweet Black Angel" for more than 30 years, but never had I heard the recording's spaciousness and percussive grandeur expressed with this degree of conviction. Nor had the background details been so ruthlessly yet effortlessly exposed.

I could hear into the sonic picture with greater clarity and far greater ease than ever before... There wasn't a genre of music or a favorite recording that didn't yield spectacular results through the MBL 101Es, or, in many cases, reveal heretofore hidden information—the resolving power of these speakers was astonishing. But more than revealing new information, the MBL's delivered what I already knew was there with an unforced ease and grace that are unrivaled by any speaker I've heard ... the sound—and it's a big sound—floated effortlessly in three-dimensional space as with no other speaker in my experience. More important, they created a believable musical reality. . "

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