Just a fun story to revive an old thread. Many years ago I was living in an apartment with a narrow living room. I wanted 101E’s but didn’t have the room. I had read that MBL used to sell just the top section on its own with no subwoofer and inquired about buying it that way, but was told they didn’t make it any more.
Shortly after, I attended a party here in NYC in An apartment that was literally an entire city block long. I was pretty shocked as I had never seen anything like it. The guy had a pair of 101D’s which further led me into a deep despair over my own personal lack of space and gear. They were set up with very long runs of what looked like generic speaker cable to not great electronics and playing background music so not a great demo.
Years later I was able to acquire my own good sized loft space (in a much less desirable part of town as the hedge fund manager could afford) but with higher ceilings. I fell in love with the TAD sound and happy with my CR1’s with subs and supertweeters, but I’d be lying if said I wasn’t still haunted by that block long apartment and the 3D sound of well set up MBL’s.