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High-End Audio Buyer’s Guide 2024: MBL 120

MBL 120

$26,500 (stands $2080)

Yes, it looks remarkably similar to the classic ’droid silhouette of the MBL 121. But the 120 has higher damping and rigidity, and a massively reinforced cabinet with twice the volume of the 121—large enough to increase the diameter of the push-push, side-firing woofers. But it’s the seamless frequency response of the 120 that represents its greatest improvement. This speaker spins silk from top to bottom but especially in its grainless treble. Imaging and soundstage replication are also more precise. And midbass integration, a weakness of the 121, is much improved in the 120, not to mention it achieves an easy half-octave or more of low bass. The finest compact Radialstrahler yet. (228)

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