Tonality is fantastic, with just a smidge of body that really shines on acoustic instruments, especially piano, acoustic guitar and violin. Best of all, this is an amplifier that is up to playing some heavy rock, too.
V-40SE has no problem driving speakers as low as 2 ohms without problem, so it begged for the Martin Logan challenge. The CLX is notoriously difficult for most tube amplifiers to drive due to its impedance dropping to .75 ohms at 20khz. Many of the tube amplifiers I’ve tried with it made the speakers sound like they had a blanket over them .
While my favorite audio conspiracy theorists always crave negativity in product reviews, I can find no faults with the Octave V-40SE.