I live in Lawrence, KS where these are built and had the pleasure of listening to these bad boys for an entire evening in their listening room of their office. It was a life changing experience.
I remember my first ML experience at Kief’s on Iowa. Loved that place. Miss it. Wish there was a place like it in Lawrence still. They were playing Norah Jones, and it must have been on vinyl. They had a crazy setup. It was astonishing. Wish I remembered what it was. Would love to work for ML now!
I auditioned these beauties at Safe and Sound as well - and much like seeing my first Lamborghini Countach in 1985, it was an experience never to be forgotten!
Hello Shane! VERY happy to see you edit and get this presentation up so quickly. I was the fellow with the white beard hangin' with Allan and Andrew for quite a while (and probably getting in your way LOL). I am sorry my buddy would not take the microphone for an interview about the Foundation F2's. Guess he is a bit shy. Good news, that he is buying a pair once I help him get his room setup at home. He will be coming to my place this Friday to audition my setup. Should be a good time. He will hear: (from Safe and Sound), the Classic 9's paired with the Parasound Halo P6 pre A21 amp and a Dynamo 1600x. Can't leave out the horns, so there are the Klipsch Forte' 4's and tube gear as well. It's a good sized space at 17x24' dedicated / uncluttered for 2.1 listening. I have known Dave and his dad at the audio shop for a number of years, and so fortunate to live only 8 miles down the road from such a wonderful place with great audio products. It really is like going to an audio SHOW inside! Thanks again for being there, and you now have a new subscriber 🙂 PS. if in the future, you want to use any footage with myself in the camera's view for your use from that day, feel free to do so!
When Shane mentioned that Birds track, I paused the video, fired up my Linn Akurate system playing into my DIY world audio design KLS6's and yeah, I could hear the bird wing flaps in the background no problem. This is an incredibly dynamic recording, sounds excellent. Thanks Shane for mentioning it.
I would LOVE to audition these in person. I bet they sound phenomenal! Love Martin Logan ESL’s, and personally believe them to be the finest sounding speakers available. It just boggles the mind that they went up in price $40,000! At launch 8 years ago, they were $80,000, now they’re $120,000! Why the insane price increase? Still gotta love the way they look (and sound). Simply stunning!
I've heard the Neoliths at my local Best Buy Magnolia Audio Video on many occasions, and I must say, they are absolutely one of the best on the planet, at any price!!! I also love and own Hegel (H590 integrated).
@@pedrocols indeed ... Absolutely love Electrostats .... Neoliths are well beyond me at present but. Someday ... Perhaps there ARE people who save up .... I know I would love to own a pair someday
🤗SHANE,I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW MUCH BETTER,THEY SOUND THAN THE 🤩🤩 AMAZING STATEMENTS , I HEARD YEARS AGO,DRIVEN BY TWO HUGE MACS😎 A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE BACK THEN 💚💚💚
Going off my experience hearing Martin Logans Electro Stats the first time, they don't disappear! The music just appears in between them! And you're left looking at the empty space expecting the images to come into vision. I love them
I came very close to the sound of the M-L Neolith with a pair of the Martin-Logan Quests circa 1993. I biamped them with a Krell KSA150 on the woofers and a pair of McIntosh MC275 Gordon Gow Commemorative tube amps wired as monoblocks for the panels. The panel, while not quite as large as the Neolith, is still BIG at 48” x 16”. Along with a husky 12” woofer in a sealed box crossed over at 125Hz these babies could really scale with all the attributes you’d expect from an electrostatic. On the used market, the Quests (and the essentially similar Quest Z and ReQuest) are commonly available for $2000/pr or less. When biamped, the Quests can give you 80-90% of the sound of the Neolith at 1.7% of the price. Just sayin’..
They look very imposing in such a small room. I'm not in the same league with other ML afficianados but I did just steal a pair of the Motion 15i from Best Buy for $400. I'd best describe them as loving music and they sing beautifully. I first bought the white ones but my wife did not like them. Got the red walnut and she fell in love with the color and design.
Make a new version of CLS IIz please. Price when discontinued: $5,995.00. It was great sound powered by original Mark Levinson electronics and Velodyne subwoofers. For now I'm happy with ESL-63 and REL Acoustics.
30 years ago I a pair of CLSs in my apartment, but with upgraded ladders. I really liked the coherence and especially that they were see thru, unlike Maggie 3.5Rs which I owned much later, but their door- like non-see through shape bugged me, but although the CLS panels were large, they were still a head in the vice experience. While $120000 is way beyond my budget, it is down right cheap compared to the MBLs. I have heard neither of these but I have Emerald Physics 3.4s, open baffle, 12" concentric driver with 1" polyester tweeters, outboard XOs and IMHO disappear. EP also made 2.8s which added 2 @15" woofers MSRP ~ $10,000. FOR THE REST OF US, THEY WOULD BE A SCORE
Would love to hear these but i can’t unsee them looking like giant cheese graters ever since someone pointed it out. Definitely not my taste in style but I’m sure they are amazing.
Well if you have Martin-logans....you Know...I have the Martin-logan SUMMITS... and well if I win the lottery ..Yes I want these and you have to come help me set them up.... 🥃🔈🔊🔊.... !!
Hey! That place is 15 minutes away from me! I'm going to have to check it out. Is this place new? I knew there was a Safe and Sound near by, but it looked like a little hole in the wall, in Google maps..
@@therealshanelee Those Martin Logans are a little out of my price range. Hopefully I can still get by with my Tekton Moabs, if I ever hear them in person 😅
What I find incredulous is that for a one hundred and twenty thousand pounds pair of speakers, the biggest talking point was their looks and the range of colours they were available in.
SoundLabs charges $45,000 for their Ultimate 745 full range electrostats. To pay almost 3 Times the price for a hybrid with a compromising moving coil transducer is ridiculous.
@@erics9754 For subs I'd prefer the Acoustic Elegance, 18 inch Dipole Woofers, 4 per channel, crossed over below 50Hz, 4th Order, low level. Cost about 2 grand a channel, exclusive of amplification. But compared to 120,000 bucks, a steal.
Wait for it... Here it comes... $120K!?! I could build like.... ZERO. I can build ZERO speakers cause well, I'm not a F&*$*^G carpenter. Thanks for showing us these Shane! I remember hearing a pair of ML electrostatic speakers YEARS ago. I haven't heard anything like them since. Do you still have your ML ESLX?
@@therealshanelee Yup! Lol. I didn't catch your watch today. I had Hamilton envy during your NAD vs Technics review and went and got one. (At least I THINK it was a Hamilton.) Cheers!
@@DarrenKrusi oh I'm aware. It's a sh#t show over there 🤦🏻♂️ Some folks can't just sit back and appreciate or know how to hate on things by themselves.
Bonjour j ai acheter ,une enceinte Cinema Electrostatic Loudspeaker Systeme ,Motif ,mais je ne sais pas comment le brancher sur mon ampli. J ai vue qu il ya deux sortie rouge et noire a l arriere (,signal input ..).Est ce que c est de la que je doit brancher mes cables d enceinte a mon ampli ?.Pouvez vous m aider svp ?
My thoughts exactly. You would think for $120K, there could be some sort of integrated retractable dolly system to allow them to move and still sit flush on the ground. I'm sure it wouldn't be the hardest thing to do. But who am I to critique speakers that cost half as much as the house I live in? I am but a simple peasant to anyone who has the disposable income to buy these.
Her albums have such amazing production. Everything sounds true to the source but very clean. Her vocals sit in a tough spot in the mix due to her tone so spacing of instruments are key. These albums can demonstrate such a great soundstage. Highly recommended.
My Soundlabs dwarf these little guys mine are 9ft tall and almost 4 ft wide. I paid 16 grand used and 6 grand for my two big REL subs and I guarantee they blow these away.
