Although Mark Levinson Audio Systems components continue to be produced, the company's headquarters moved in late 2003 from the Madrigal plant in Middletown, Connecticut, to Harman Specialty's facility in Bedford, Massachusetts. There ML shares manufacturing and sales space with Harman's other high-end lines, Revel and Lexicon.
Although Mark Levinson Audio Systems components continue to be produced, the company's headquarters moved in late 2003 from the Madrigal plant in Middletown, Connecticut, to Harman Specialty's facility in Bedford, Massachusetts. There ML shares manufacturing and sales space with Harman's other high-end lines, Revel and Lexicon.
This lapsed fan of electrostatic speakers finds it curious that, while MartinLogan is the predominant representative of this technology in the US, I had never auditioned an ML design in my home. I've enjoyed many Janszen tweeters, a KLH 9, an AcousTech X, Stax ELS-F81s, and I've dallied with <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/416">Quad ESL-63</A>s. But as dumb luck would have it, the first MartinLogan speaker to reach me, the new Montage, is a hybrid model.
MartinLogan Montage loudspeaker John Atkinson June 2005
This lapsed fan of electrostatic speakers finds it curious that, while MartinLogan is the predominant representative of this technology in the US, I had never auditioned an ML design in my home. I've enjoyed many Janszen tweeters, a KLH 9, an AcousTech X, Stax ELS-F81s, and I've dallied with <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/416">Quad ESL-63</A>s. But as dumb luck would have it, the first MartinLogan speaker to reach me, the new Montage, is a hybrid model.
This lapsed fan of electrostatic speakers finds it curious that, while MartinLogan is the predominant representative of this technology in the US, I had never auditioned an ML design in my home. I've enjoyed many Janszen tweeters, a KLH 9, an AcousTech X, Stax ELS-F81s, and I've dallied with <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/416">Quad ESL-63</A>s. But as dumb luck would have it, the first MartinLogan speaker to reach me, the new Montage, is a hybrid model.