■ Floorstanding speaker
■ £5495
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