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Really good center speaker, I love MartinLogan. the sound is really natural and sometimes it really does sound like someone is in the house if i forget to stop playing youtube videos.

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A good looking monster of a speaker

I was looking for a 4 ohm center speaker at a reasonable price and your sales department recommended the Martin Logan Motion 8i and the result were amazing. This speaker brought out vocals and instruments that were missing before. the speaker looks great and comes with built in wall mounts I don't know who else has this feature. Buy it listen to it and if you don't like it send it back, but you won't and buying it from Crutchfield you get the support and return policy with no problems.

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MartinLogan Motion 8i

Easy install and they sound great. I replaced a Bose system that came with my house with these. The difference in clarity was immediately obvious. They are absolutely worth the price.

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Don't wait to add this center

Five stars for the product, four stars for the service. MartinLogan is superb as always. The Motion i-series is great bang for the buck: an entry-level option for consumers to enjoy the build quality and technology of a premium manufacturer like MartinLogan, which sells speakers that go for as high as $100,000 a pair (I'll keep dreaming). They look great on a stand or table but can easily be wall mounted in several orientations. I've paired this with two Motion 4i's that I've had for two years to finally get a 3.0 system. Adding a center really does make all the difference for improving the clarity of dialogue. My only regret was waiting this long to add one. As for Crutchfield's service, I'm a little disappointed by the shipping. I knew at ordering that this item would ship in its own factory box, but Crutchfield should have at least added additional packing tape over the opening. The only seal on the box was one of those clear circular adhesives, which was broken when I received the item. I'm assuming it just opened under the stress of shipping as the contents thankfully appeared undisturbed. I also ordered with the speaker a 6 foot Crutchfield speaker cable with banana plugs which shipped separately. That cable easily could have been sent in a small padded envelope but for some reason it got its own oversized box filled with packing peanuts. That's probably the treatment the $450 speaker should have gotten rather than the $15 speaker cable.

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Impressive sound for such a small center channel

I would give this speaker 4.5 stars if I could. The build quality is excellent and the finish is top notch. If looks are important to one of the family members, this is a great choice. It is not very deep and if mounted on a wall it would almost appear to be flat on the wall. A nice touch for wall mounting is that the speaker has a slight curve allowing for ease of speaker wire connect. This also points each midrange speaker slightly to the left or right giving a wider soundstage to the center channel. Paired with my MartinLogan Motion® 35XT speakers for the front left right mains this center channel had a very similar sonic signature which matched fairly well. Only in the lower frequencies would the center channel not match the mains as well. For most movies I watched it did a very decent job, especially with the actors voices, clear and natural sounding. Where I found the speaker lacking was on live concerts. Especially on my copy of the Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense. This is a very dynamic recording, especially for 1984. The vocals just got lost in the mix, and any instrument that feed into the center channel really lost their impact and sonic accuracy. So I upgraded to the MartinLogan Motion® 30 and this made all the difference for live concert recordings. Also for male actors with a deeper voice, the sound was a bit more natural. If I was only going to listen to streaming TV & movies I most likely would have kept the 8i as it did an amazing job for it's size.

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MartinLogan Motion 8i

This is the mainstay of my system . My theater experience has improved exponentially.

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MartinLogan Motion 8i

This center speaker pairs great with my 40i towers they sound great

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MartinLogan Motion 8i

nice center speaker but i wish they had more better sound i little muddy at times for me i love martin logan i have owned ESL and love love them

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Excellent Speaker!

Simple to set up and great sound for the money.

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Better Than Expected

I ordered the 8i center speaker to accompany the ML 60XT tower speakers. I wanted to use the 50XT center speaker, but was unable to, due to space restrictions with the BDI credenza. I was concerned that the 8i wouldn't be able to blend well enough with the 60XT's and it that its sound wouldn't be capable of the full range I needed with a good amount of bass to give the center sound it's needed oomph. Well, I was wrong. The 8i blends perfectly with the 60XT's and I am more than happy with it's performance. Just like all Martin Logan speakers, give it at least 2 solid days worth of material to break it in and you'll hear it open it up and give you the sound that you want to hear.

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Speaker - Excellent. Crutchfield - Terrible.

Purchased this as a center speaker. Happy with MartinLogan quality and this speaker. No issues whatsoever. However, after purchasing $6,000 worth of audio gear from Crutchfield, they put a freeze on a CD player I ordered today that needed delivered on time. They waited to notify me after business was closed that they needed to confirm my order was legitimate. After a half dozen orders using the same billing and shipping address over the previous month they somehow thought the order was not legitimate? And they waited until after business/ shipping hours to notify me via email no less. Worst inept customer service ever. They have lost my business forever.

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Room full of sound!

great product... had the 6i and upgraded to the 8i big improvement... the 6i as ok but the 8i takes it up a big notch!! great customer service!!!

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MartinLogan Motion 8i

Awesome center speaker... I combined it with two motion 40 and a dynamo 1000. Martin Logan's are amazing

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