Peter wrote:


Since you said yourself that the two 10" woofers do not go as low as a
single 8" woofer can go, the question arises why not?

Good question.
I cant' remember the Xover freq. that ML has by default, but I think I
remember it being very high.


Is it strictly a matter of cabinetry or is it a matter of different
crossover circuitry?

beats me, but that is the way it is.
Strange, some recordings...they play fine. They go real low. Lots of
grunt.
Most recordings though, they have nothing.

If it is indeed the latter, perhaps you could change
the crossover to one of the 10" woofers in your M-L electrostatics, and then
actually "run it" like a subwoofer. Perhaps others in this group can
provide suggestions how one might do this, or perhaps even M-L can provide
some help.

I've read Sssssooooo many good things about the SL3, its transparency,
its "window to the true music", its quality as a reference speaker...id
be afraid to mess w/it.


Of course part of the problem might also be the voice coil travel length and
the resonant frequency of the supplied M-L woofers, and if this is indeed
the case perhaps one them could be replaced with a 10" speaker that will "go
down" much further.