EXPIRED: Lenehan Audio MLT3- 2018 models

[Eagleeyes]

Item: Lenehan Audio MLT3- 2018 models
Location: PERTH
Price: 4100
Item Condition: Almost perfect only 12 months old. Dark grey models. Lovely condition. Couple of small marks.
Reason for selling: New speakers coming.
Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, COD Only
Extra Info: Have boxes so can pack and send anywhere. Boxes say weigh is 37 kilos each.

 

https://www.lenehanaudio.com.au/ml3.html

 

https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=95236.msg951583#msg951583

 

The ML3 was designed with one specific goal in mind: 

Reproduce the input signal better than any Loudspeaker currently in production. 

The task is Herculean of course and we are very well aware of many other such attempts both present and in the past. What size room will this Loudspeaker be built for? 

There is no doubt that an 8inch two way will drive a room of reasonable dimensions only! We're talking here of around 140 cubic mtrs | 5000 cubic feet with dimensions approximately 6mtrs x 8mtrs x 3mtrs. This is certainly a decent size living room. Due mainly to it’s PRC Xover and bottom vent design, the ML3 will drive a room as small as 50 cubic mtrs | 1700 cubic feet with no bass boom whatsoever! 

OK, but how much energy can an 8 inch two way produce? I mean, will they have enough steam in the bass for me? After all sometimes when I’m in the mood I like to get into some Rage Against the Machine or Tool or even Faithless. But at the same time I mostly listen at moderate levels to Jazz and Classical music. 

ML3’s have, we believe; state of the art bass reproduction. Rock solid into the mid 20hz region, their speed articulation and detail in the lower frequencies is the foundation for the rest of the frequency range. The ML3 power handling is huge! mainly because of the immense high power understressed Xover. 

We believe the ML3 is the closest thing to the universal Holy Grail of balanced high end design that is possible to currently achieve. In a room of approximately 130 cubic mtrs or 4500sq ft the ML3 will play flat to near 25hz in the listening chair! And no it won't boom in the bass and be impossible to set up like many others. You won't for instance have to set them up 6ft into the room to get a decent balance. 

In respect of imaging and soundstage depth the ML3's will throttle your senses. In our test room with the ML3’s set up 75cm (2.5ft) off the front wall and 2.75mtrs apart with a listening distance of 3.2mtrs image width is at least 2mtrs wider than the loudspeakers with 3 dimensional soundstage that goes back through the wall!! Belafonte live at Carnegie hall for instance is simply huge with tremendous image and dimensional stability. Detail within the soundstage we believe is currently SOTA (state of the art). Speed, bass slam and transient abilities are also currently at the leading edge of moving coil loudspeaker design. 

The reasons for the ML3’s intrinsic superiority are many, but the unique and world's first acoustical foam baffle design probably heads the list. This baffle makes the enclosure of the ML3's ostensibly invisible to the low and high frequency drivers. Try this: put your hands around your mouth like your going to yell at someone 200mtrs down the road, but flatten them out so they don’t cup like a cone. OK, now turn to someone and recite a simple phrase, then take your hand away and recite the same phrase. The difference in the sound of your voice is of course amazing . You were listening to distortion of course and it’s obvious; Yes? That’s why all speakers with baffles of any sort are inferior. 

ML3’s bass loading is proprietary, the port is huge and under stressed so that at high sound pressure levels it still supports the bass driver, in fact it’s close to linear at all drive inputs. Rock solid extended bass that does not produce a grungy type of incoherent bloom underneath the mid’s and high’s. The corollary here is phenomenal transparency that hitherto has only been the province of the best full range electrostatics but with punch weight and authority that the former has simply never been capable of. 

As with all the ML series the Xover is hand built and hardwired. After run in each Xover is handtuned to each host loudspeaker in front of a measurement microphone to a virtually zero tolerance. Each Xover is subtly different to every other ML Xover because each Loudspeaker itself is an individual unto itself. The end result though is imaging and soundstaging perfection. 

These Loudspeakers can pull off the ultimate disappearing act, no doubt. 
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Edited October 9, 2019 by Eagleeyes
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[Gremrock]

These are actually MLT3 not ML3. 

Good speakers but a different model 

[buddyev]

5 minutes ago, Gremrock said:

These are actually MLT3 not ML3. 

Good speakers but a different model 

I couldn't see a reference to the MLT3 on the Lenehan site - whats the difference?

[Eagleeyes]

1 hour ago, Gremrock said:

These are actually MLT3 not ML3. 

Good speakers but a different model 

Amended I cannot find them on the site either, what is the difference, are they the right price then for a one year old pair. The back plates look far more modern than others that have been listed on here but can confirm they are MLT3 delivered in Sept 2018 directly from Mike.

Edited October 9, 2019 by Eagleeyes
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[Guest]

This should answer your question about what is the difference between MLT3 & ML3 from a SNA member.GLWTS 

[Eagleeyes]

@Conrad1970 do you have the rest of the article or is that it. thank you.

[Guest]

That's it really otherwise Mike Lenehan should be able to answer the question 

Edited October 9, 2019 by Conrad1970

[jakestar]

I think their weight could help.

ML3 are around 80kg each.

I borrowed a pair of MLT3 couple years back which weighed about 33kg each.

Both sound great but with a different tonal flavour.

Mike would be the man to clarify.

Glwts.

I love that dark pewter finish.

[rocky500]

Mike did post this on the MLT3 a while back here

[Eagleeyes]

1 hour ago, rocky500 said:

Mike did post this on the MLT3 a while back here

Thanks @rocky500 gives a lot more info on the speaker sounds, pretty good by all accounts.

 

For clarification I swapped them on another piece of gear I had for sale, as trying to get cash at the moment is harder work than normal , so they are still kind of one owner, the original owners details are on the box and I am just baby-sitting( without use) them for the next person to buy.

 

For clarification I am not a shop or retailer of any kind, just kind of mixed up selling and buying a lot of gear from my two systems ( office and home) trying to perfect my one at home system, sometimes for cash sometimes as swaps, hopefully by Christmas I will be done and maybe disappear for a while to audio nirvana...maybe.

[Gremrock]

Physically the ML3's have foam fronts and a different tweeter, they're also bigger and heavier. Past that I can't help, there's a couple of people who've spoken highly of these, and I think they're a step under the ML3's but when I sold mine (ml3s to fund the wedding last year) They went for $6k and were much older, so reflected in the much lower price. Anything Mike puts his name to is well made, and ironically the smaller cabinets often tend to be more inert anyway (less resonance) despite the lower weight etc.

 

These appear to be the same tweeter as the ML2 which many prefer to the ML3 anyway, which has a "cleaner" presentation, The ML3's had better midrange (IMO vs ML2, but I do have a thing for valves and what most describe as a "warm" presentation..), but a little rolled off in the top end. These would be somewhere in between I imagine as it'll have the bigger bass driver, and the tweeter most people seem to prefer.

 

Hope my subjective thoughts help.. Killer speakers, would happily take them off your hands, but sadly, you seem to want some money for them, which I do not have..

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Edited October 9, 2019 by Gremrock

[Eagleeyes]

Price drop now only  $3999 trying the special retail advertising technique

 

[Eagleeyes]

Sale on weekend 2nd to 3rd November

Edited November 1, 2019 by Eagleeyes

[Eagleeyes]

older pair of these sold today - these are only pair on SNA now and only a year old, bargain buy now.

[Eagleeyes]

Weekend sale $3999 for as new2018 model Lenehan MLT3 speakers

[Mendes]

1 hour ago, Eagleeyes said:

Weekend sale $3999 for as new2018 model Lenehan MLT3 speakers

Neighborly bump for you.....GLWTS

[Eagleeyes]

Just now, Mendes said:

Neighborly bump for you.....GLWTS

Why thank you kind sir...said in my best Wild West accent