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摘要

Electrostatic loudspeaker specialist MartinLogan has announced two new models which will sell in the UK at previously unheard of low prices. At £1599 the Source is said to be the world's most affordable high-performance hybrid electrostatic, while the Purity, at £2090, is a similar-looking loudspeaker but with 200W of on-board amplification. The Source [pictured above] stands 1.3m high and uses MartinLogan's CLS Generation 2 electrostatic panel technology, its name derived from the use of curvilinear line source panels. These claim to deliver good horizontal sound dispersion, and use ML's thin-film plasma-deposition process to apply a conductive coating over the low-mass PET membrane.