MartinLogan Motion 35XT

摘要

As a long-term user of MartinLogan electrostatics, I was baffled by the company's decision to make small box-type speakers. Wasn't the exquisite 'see-through' styling the brand's hottest selling point after sound quality? But, as with Quad, Apogee and other panel makers, the company was able to adapt to this dissimilar discipline. So I went out and bought a pair of the Motion range's entry-level speaker. Yes, a pair of Motion 15s (£898) sits on my desk as my all-day-while-working speaker. By the time the next model up, the Motion 35XT (£1298), arrived for this review, I'd had many hundreds of hours' listening time with the near-identical driver combination in its enclosure made of wooden-veneered 19mm MDF, just a few centimetres smaller each way.