Here are two words I never thought I’d use together in a sentence: audiophile soundbar. Yet MartinLogan’s new Motion Vision model indisputably qualifies. The Kansas speaker maker is certainly audiophile-approved, with hybrid speaker designs whose electrostatic panel mid/tweeters and cone woofers — the current range peaks at $25,000 per pair — made their bones among serious audio buffs decades ago. More recently, ML’s Motion family of more conventional box speakers employing cone woofers and “Folded-Motion” accordion-pleat tweeters (an update on the Heil “Air-Motion Trans former” high-frequency transducer first seen on ESS speakers in the 1970s) has won broad approval.
MartinLogan’s newest addition to the Motion speaker family is a one-piece, DSP-surround soundbar — known as the Motion Vision — combining hardware front-left, -right, and center channels with virtualized surround. MartinLogan also sent along with it a companion subwoofer, the conventionally coned Dynamo 700w, which is a nicely compact, eminently tossable (27 pounds), 10-inch sealed job, to extend response to legitimate home theater regions.
This sound bar is amaz. Between this one and the Bose for the same price the ML sounds so much better. Especially if you will be playing music through it. Even without a sub it's impressive. If I had the money though I would purchase the B&W Panorama. Hands down better but 7 hundo more.