MBL 101e mk 2 Speaker Owners?

We've had several customers using our MA-2s. To use them with the speaker, you need a small ZOBEL network in parallel with the speaker but that is easy to do.

IMO/IME the speaker is not really all that hard to drive. The fact that it is omnidirectional means that the measurements on it don't show its true efficiency.

As a result most 200-watt tube amps will do fine in an average size room.

We always use CAT mono amps with Mbl 101 mkii. In fact, they were shown at CES at the CAT room couple of years ago. On another hand, I have heard some 300 watt tube amps sound flimsy with MBL. It is not that they could not play them loud, they simply did not have any weight and woofer control. 101e need lots of current, and most tube amps fail to deliver enough of it.

Dealer disclaimer .

Hello Stereo5...

I'm currently a 101e MKII owner and I have been use MBL 9008 amps with my 101 and very happy with the result. I don't think any solid state amps can do better then the MBL amps. As for tube amps, I have listen with the CAT amps and I like it a lot.

I have MBL 111b speakers which are also fairly hard to drive. Have tried a few different amps and settled on the MBL 9007s. Hands down the best. Stick with MBL. Get the biggest pair of mono Amps you can afford.

I really don't have any more money to throw into the system, so changing the amp to MBL amps won't happen. I am getting the speakers for free, so if they don't sound good with my system, they will go back to the owners son.