New Martin-Logan XStat: $10K speaker that looks like $129 IKEA special

[Margaret von B.]

The new M-L Summit features the company's new XStat technology.

See picture here:

http://www.martinloganowners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264&highlight=xstat

And side by side with the Ascent:

http://www.martinloganowners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264&page=3&pp=15&highlight=xstat

According to Thomas J. Norton, they sound outstanding:

http://www.ultimateavmag.com/news/010905ces/

And they better, because according to me, they look like something you get
from IKEA for $129 (assembly required).

I know that looks are secondary to performance but did they have to be
sooooooo CHEESY. YECCHH!

Compare to Innersound, for example:

http://www.innersound.net/kachina.html

To me these are beautiful speakers in addition to sounding great.

As many of you know, I'm a huge Martin Logan fan and own a pair of Prodigys
and a pair of SL-3's but I just cannot digest this new look.

What do the rest of you think?

Cheers,

Margaret

[MINe 109]

In article >,
"Margaret von B." > wrote:

> The new M-L Summit features the company's new XStat technology.
>
> See picture here:
>
> http://www.martinloganowners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264&highlight=xstat
>
> And side by side with the Ascent:
>
> http://www.martinloganowners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264&page=3&pp=15&highl
> ight=xstat
>
> According to Thomas J. Norton, they sound outstanding:
>
> http://www.ultimateavmag.com/news/010905ces/
>
> And they better, because according to me, they look like something you get
> from IKEA for $129 (assembly required).
>
> I know that looks are secondary to performance but did they have to be
> sooooooo CHEESY. YECCHH!
>
> Compare to Innersound, for example:
>
> http://www.innersound.net/kachina.html
>
> To me these are beautiful speakers in addition to sounding great.
>
> As many of you know, I'm a huge Martin Logan fan and own a pair of Prodigys
> and a pair of SL-3's but I just cannot digest this new look.
>
> What do the rest of you think?

Could be Pottery Barn!

Is it a good idea to realize an antipathy to Scandinavian style at this
point?

Stephen

[Margaret von B.]

"Margaret von B." > wrote in message
...

> Compare to Innersound, for example:
>
> http://www.innersound.net/kachina.html
>
> To me these are beautiful speakers in addition to sounding great.
>

This was just brought to my attention:

http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=mug&n=73327&highlight=mart+sanders&r=&session=

Basically Innersound hasn't existed for some time now. I feel really bad for
Roger Sanders and hope he will come up with a new company.

Sorry about the ignorant comparison.

Cheers,

Margaret

[Margaret von B.]

"MINe 109" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Margaret von B." > wrote:
>
>> The new M-L Summit features the company's new XStat technology.
>>
>> See picture here:
>>
>> http://www.martinloganowners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264&highlight=xstat
>>
>> And side by side with the Ascent:
>>
>> http://www.martinloganowners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264&page=3&pp=15&highl
>> ight=xstat
>>
>> According to Thomas J. Norton, they sound outstanding:
>>
>> http://www.ultimateavmag.com/news/010905ces/
>>
>> And they better, because according to me, they look like something you
>> get
>> from IKEA for $129 (assembly required).
>>
>> I know that looks are secondary to performance but did they have to be
>> sooooooo CHEESY. YECCHH!
>>
>> Compare to Innersound, for example:
>>
>> http://www.innersound.net/kachina.html
>>
>> To me these are beautiful speakers in addition to sounding great.
>>
>> As many of you know, I'm a huge Martin Logan fan and own a pair of
>> Prodigys
>> and a pair of SL-3's but I just cannot digest this new look.
>>
>> What do the rest of you think?
>
> Could be Pottery Barn!
>

Oh great. At least they now look like $1,299 items...

> Is it a good idea to realize an antipathy to Scandinavian style at this
> point?

Good call. But some of that stuff over there....like pizza in Italy.


Cheers,

Margaret

[MINe 109]

In article >,
"Margaret von B." > wrote:

> >> What do the rest of you think?
> >
> > Could be Pottery Barn!
> >
>
> Oh great. At least they now look like $1,299 items...

How about the cheaper MLs with ribbons style-wise? I think they look
like someone didn't want them to look different from their bigger models.

> > Is it a good idea to realize an antipathy to Scandinavian style at this
> > point?
>
> Good call. But some of that stuff over there....like pizza in Italy.

Gotta love it. I still check out any restaurant that claims to have
Roman style pizza despite the 100% disappointment rate.

Stephen

[Schizoid Man]

"George M. Middius" > wrote in message

> Margaret von B. said:
>
>> > Is it a good idea to realize an antipathy to Scandinavian style at this
>> > point?
>
>> Good call. But some of that stuff over there....like pizza in Italy.
>
> Pizza was invented in Italy. Naples, to be precise.
>
> Do they at least have stylish cell phones where you're going?

Napoli is the armpit of the ****ing world. I'd rather be sent to the Black
Hole of Calcutta than ever subject myself to that grostesque, godless place
every again.

The only nice thing about the place is its proximity to Capri.

[Margaret von B.]

"Schizoid Man" > wrote in message
...
>
> "George M. Middius" > wrote in message
>
>> Margaret von B. said:
>>
>>> > Is it a good idea to realize an antipathy to Scandinavian style at
>>> > this
>>> > point?
>>
>>> Good call. But some of that stuff over there....like pizza in Italy.
>>
>> Pizza was invented in Italy. Naples, to be precise.
>>
>> Do they at least have stylish cell phones where you're going?
>
> Napoli is the armpit of the ****ing world. I'd rather be sent to the Black
> Hole of Calcutta than ever subject myself to that grostesque, godless
> place every again.

Would you rather be sent here?

http://www.keithv.com/scans/murmansk_skyline.jpg

[Joseph Oberlander]

Margaret von B. wrote:

> The new M-L Summit features the company's new XStat technology.

Ick. Just get Soundlab, or a pair of full-size Magnepans or
even Quads for that money.

[Schizoid Man]

"Margaret von B." > wrote in message
>
> "Schizoid Man" > wrote in message
>> Napoli is the armpit of the ****ing world. I'd rather be sent to the
>> Black Hole of Calcutta than ever subject myself to that grostesque,
>> godless place every again.
>
> Would you rather be sent here?
>
> http://www.keithv.com/scans/murmansk_skyline.jpg

I honestly would prefer the frozen wasteland of Siberia to getting wasted by
some thug on the streets of Napoli.

[Schizoid Man]

"Paul Dormer" > wrote in message
> "Schizoid Man" emitted :
>
>>>> Napoli is the armpit of the ****ing world. I'd rather be sent to the
>>>> Black Hole of Calcutta than ever subject myself to that grostesque,
>>>> godless place every again.
>>>
>>> Would you rather be sent here?
>>>
>>> http://www.keithv.com/scans/murmansk_skyline.jpg
>>
>>I honestly would prefer the frozen wasteland of Siberia to getting wasted
>>by
>>some thug on the streets of Napoli.
>
> Did you have a bad experience there?

I saw someone get stabbed in the jugular.

[Schizoid Man]

"Paul Dormer" > wrote in message

> "Schizoid Man" emitted :

>>> Did you have a bad experience there?
>>
>>I saw someone get stabbed in the jugular.
>
> A life-changing experience.. you have my sympathies for having to
> endure such a thing. It would be entirely natural for that occurance
> to taint your outlook on the place irrevocably.. but is that sort of
> grisly violence actually more predominant in Napoli? Is it not a case
> of "wrong place, wrong time"?

It perhaps was a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Apart
from the crime, the city's littered with squalor, scam artists, prostitutes
and thugs.

I adore Italy, but I would not mind if I never set foot in Naples again.

[Schizoid Man]

"George M. Middius" > wrote in message

> It doesn't happen enough in a certain town in Michigan. ;-)

Though it does in another vile place called Gary, Indiana, which is close
enough to Michigan... :-)