Well these Martin Logans are a bit different, aren’t they? But then, Martin Logan’s reputation is built on doing things differently.
The ElectroMotion ESL X is just the latest in a long line of the company’s hybrid speaker designs that marry an electrostatic panel with moving coil drivers to handle the bass. Why not just have a single electrostatic panel covering the whole frequency range? On paper, a single electrostatic driver makes total sense in terms of engineering purity and delivering as cohesive a sound as possible, but there are penalties in terms of speaker size (it will be big) and bass output (it will be relatively limited). That’s where Martin Logan’s hybrid approach comes in.
