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Dark cherry finish with manual and packaging. Best to call me direct on 07723537790 or text comes with original packaging
At £1,175, this sits well below the £1,691 25th percentile and far under the £2,208 median for recent UK comparables, so it reads as a strong buy rather than merely fair. For a speaker of this calibre, that’s a meaningful gap, not a rounding error, and it should get serious attention.
The appeal here is straightforward: the VANTAGE is a respected, full-range electrostatic-hybrid design with the kind of openness, scale, and imaging that can be hard to unhear once you’ve lived with it. In excellent condition, the main upside is getting a premium statement speaker at bargain money; just make sure the panels, powered bass section, and cosmetics are genuinely clean, because a neat, well-kept pair at this price is exactly the sort of used hi-fi opportunity worth moving on quickly.
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MartinLogan emerged in the late 1970s from Lawrence, Kansas, when Gayle Martin Sanders and Ron Logan Sutherland, sharing a passion for electrostatic loudspeakers, united their engineering and design expertise. The duo, whose middle names inspired the brand, unveiled their breakthrough at the 1983 CES with the Monolith—the world's first practical hybrid electrostatic speaker, blending a curved panel for mids and highs with a dynamic woofer for bass. This American innovation addressed longstanding electrostatic limitations like fragility and poor low-end response, propelling the company from a high-end audio store collaboration to a dedicated manufacturing powerhouse.
The brand specializes in electrostatic and hybrid speakers, from flagship floorstanders like the CLX and Summit X to more accessible Motion Series designs, alongside complementary powered subwoofers and select electronics. Their proprietary thin-film transducers, advanced panel assembly, and room-optimized engineering define a lineup that prioritizes transparency and precision over conventional dynamic drivers, eschewing amplifiers, turntables, DACs, headphones, or cables.
Positioned firmly in the high-end market, MartinLogan commands respect among discerning audiophiles for its unwavering commitment to electrostatic purity, delivering ethereal soundstaging and timbral accuracy that make cabinets vanish. Now part of the PML group alongside Paradigm and Anthem, it blends Kansas heritage with rigorous innovation, appealing to buyers seeking reference-level realism in home audio and theater systems.
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