How would one describe the martin logan panel sound

[projectormovielover]

If i am recommending martin logan speakers to friends and family to convince them to buy how would I best describe the sound of martin logan panels ?

 

[roberto]

The sound is with the right size of the instrument(s), voclal(s). There is air between them. The stage is wider and truly 3D. If you listen to a piano player, it is very easy to understand what the left hand is doing vs right hand. The soul of the musician(s) is just there. Listen the cymbals... the instruments are projected different than conventional speakers. The bass is robust and incredible deep. Your ears will tell. Same thing that happened to you. Happy listening,
Roberto.

 

[eknuds01]

All good equipment seeks to 'get out of the way' of the music - at least this is my view. I find that ML speakers present the music in a very pure form which is very clear and uncolored.

 

[Lutjanus]

The sound is rich and detailed, without causing listener fatigue.
Music is all about layers. Being able to clearly discern each individual layer is something that these panels achieve.

The panels have the ability to reproduce ambience, spaciousness and depth.

 

[tsv_1]

IMO, the ultimate goal of hifi is to try and recreate the original musical event. The level of fideltiy depends on many things including, obviously, the original recording: mic placement, venue, and associated equipment along with any mixing and mastering through to production. Then, we pick up the playback side of things with equipment that should (as someone above said) get out of the way of the music. Speakers play perhaps the most critical role in the recreation of the event. To my senses, high end ML transducers "get out of the way" better than most speakers available on the market today. Even so, there is still something missing. I can, >99% of the time, instantly tell when I'm listening to actual live music versus a recording. There's something about the ambient adroitness that informs your ear-brain that a live event is occuring. High end audio has not completely resolved this phenominon yet (IMO). However, I've come no closer to this illusion than with ML panels (specifically the CLX). Having said that, there are a whole lot of very expensive speakers out there I have not heard that make big claims to this end. So, given my admittedly limited sampling of high-end transducers, we must take my input for what it is... a limited world view where ML panels have a leg up on most other offerings in the sub $20K universe.

 

[amey01]

What Roberto said.

 

[TrumpetDoug]

One Word........

REAL

Doug - out

 

[TomDac]

"open"
"airy"
"real"