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MARTINLOGAN 60XTi STEREO LOUDSPEAKERS

One of this writer’s earliest hi-fi revelations came courtesy of MartinLogan. Back at the advent of the 1990s, a tour was organised for this then-UK junior reviewer to gain what was, in retrospect, a rare and privileged insight into the home hi-fi systems of the most esteemed reviewers in the country at that time. Three memories from this tour were etched deep. The first of these was the inconceivable size of the LP and CD collection of Jimmy Hughes. Second was the sound of Led Zeppelin’s Moby Dick played through Malcolm Steward’s Linn/Naim system (the speaker model is forgotten, but the song very much remains).

And third was being sat in front of a pair of MartinLogan electrostatic speakers at the home of Alvin Gold, to be transported by the extraordinary detail, soundstaging and sheer realism of the orchestral recordings he favoured. MartinLogan has held a little place in the heart ever since.

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