Martin Logan Logos vs Theatre vs Cinema

Hi:

I have an all Martin Logan theater with CLS IIz's up front, scripts in the rear, and a Theater as center. I've listened extensively to the Logos and the Theater.....and prefer the Theater. Having said that, when noone is off axis, I prefer to use phantom center mode and let the CLS IIz's handle the front!!! I've done extensive a-b comparisons with the center in and center out. The soundstage is wider and deeper in phantom center mode.

harry

I went from a brand new late model Logos to a new late model Theater, (not Theatre i). The difference in dynamics and output was a surprise to me. I kept the Theater and sold the Logos.

I never did upgrade to the Theater i because of the dongle. The convenience of not needing a traditional IEC power cord did not appeal to me. I prefer the option to use a power cord of my choice. I never purchased the new Generation 2 stat panel because of the power cord. No one had one locally for me to demo. I might have been moved to purchase the newest Theater i.

Has anyone ever owned both the Theater and Theater i? Any major upgrade there?

I wonder what the new high end Martin Logan product will be like in 2005.

http://www.martinloganowners.com/forum/messages/8285.html

I personally have tried two of the Martin Logan Center Speakers.

I started with the Cinema and really like the sound but the soundstage was no comparsion to the Logo which I later upgrade to.

I want to make a note here Logos does have a tweeter and woofer driver. The woofer is enclosed in the back cabinet. So it would be consider as a hybrid

Someday in the future I would like to try the Theater i to see if it would be better than the Logos.

Please check out this link for Logos manual:
http://www.martinlogan.com/mediaresources/OnlineDocumentation/Manual_Logos.pdf

If anyone could put some input in from Logos to the new Theater I would be interested to hear some feedback.
Thanks.

Bill

C123666,

The current Martin Logan center channels are both hybrids - just like ALL of Martin Logan's current lineup.

It's difficult to make a dipole unit produce the kind of
long wavelength bass sound - the fact that it's a dipole
means that the bass emitted by the panel is acoustically
"shorted out" since it will have destructive interference
with the back wave.

A relatively small baffle like the Logos doesn't isolate
the front and back bass waves very well. When the
wavelength is bigger than the speaker - there's not much
the speaker can do. It's bad enough for a "full-sized"
electrostat - even more so for the diminutive Logos.

This is where the hybrid design comes in - the small
dynamic woofers in the Cinema and Theater are not hampered
by concerns about backwave cancellation.

Martin Logan discontinued the all electrostatic Logos
center channel - just as it discontinued the all
electrostatic CLS "full-sized" speaker.

Dr. Gregory Greenman
Physicist