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Excellent Bookshelf Speakers

These speakers have sounded excellent right out of the box. Packaging was excellent, literally triple boxed. As others have noted, excellent build quality and the finish is impeccable. We have the big AVR and surround system but I'm a 2 channel guy, I compared the Martin Logan Motion XT B100's to my other bookshelf speakers, Klipsch RP 600m mk11, Wharfedale EVO 4.2 and Elac Uni-Fi 2.0 UB52. Wharfedales are excellent at med to high volume's, the elacs at med volume. The klipsch are a close second to ML's and are excellent low volume listening. The XT B100's sound excellent at all volume levels. I find they have plenty of bass for me. My listening area is 12' x 22', the equipment is an Athem MCA 225 gen 2 amp, Parasound Halo P6 pre and sources are MD 100a Tuner or Marantz CD6007. In the process of going back to vinyl and will update this review after listening. As for technical terms describing highs, meds, and bass, for all intents and purposes they sound great, everyone has a different sound they like best so it's very subjective. One thing everyone will be please with, is the excellent step separation. I set them 10' apart, 2' from back wall, 1' from side walls and no matter where I am in the room there is excellent separation. I placed them for now on top of Klipsch towers and they are angled back down towards the listening level.

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Bookshelf as a center channel!

Using this as a center channel to complement my XT F100's. These ML speakers provide extreme clarity in my home theater providing crystal clear dialog in movies and television shows. The XT folder motion tweeter is exceptional in the XT version of the motion speakers from ML. I have the Motion B10/F10 speakers in my family room, and the XL B100/F100 speakers in my home theater and I am extremely pleased with both solutions. The wide dispersion allows me to set the bookshelf speakers on their sides and use them for center channel solutions in both settings.

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MartinLogan Motion XT B100

Great sound, very happy!

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Great speakers!

I am an old Bose gal, but finally decided to retire them. These MartinLogans are terrific speakers and I am very glad I followed the recommendations of the Crutchfield team and some folks on Facebook.

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MartinLogan Motion XT B100

These were really good. However my Motion 15i's are the perfect bookshelf for my room.

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Wow!

Wow! These speakers are really good! Highly recommend! Crutchfield as always is amazing! Ok, im going back to my music! ??

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MartinLogan Motion XT B100

Amazing sound quality. I have a Marantz 2275 connected and can't go above 1/4 volume without being to loud for me.. highly recommend.

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Amazing sound.

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Sound even better than I hoped.

I had the older Motion 35 speakers that I liked but they seemed to have just a little coloration in upper midrange and I decided to upgrade. I initially considered the new ML F100 towers but I determined bookshelf speakers probably suit me better right now and I have a nice subwoofer so they work well in my setting. I hoped the new ML XT B100's would be an improvement and they certainly are that. These speakers sound very nice. Female voices from Alison Krauss to Stevie Nicks sound wonderful without any noticeable coloration. Male voices like John Mayer to Elton John sound very natural. And music from rock to jazz to blues all sound very good. I would describe these speakers as very dynamic with no muddiness and very good forward extension with no fatigue. The more you listen on these speakers the more music you want to keep listening to. I have them connected to my Yamaha Pre/Pro and ATI Amp. And one nice thing about these ML bookshelf speakers is you don't need as much power to drive them compared to many other bookshelf speakers and they can get quite loud. Also, while you don't necessarily need to run these with a sub, you aren't going to get bass like tower speakers would provide. I plan to get a 3rd B100 as well to use for my center channel speaker in my HT setup. Overall, you can't go wrong with these speakers.

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Amazing sound quailty and big soundstage from a compact bookshelf

I wanted to create a more minimal setup in a still very large room (over 800 sq feet) with 14 foot ceilings as my wife didn't want Tower Speakers in this great room shared space (we use Paradigm towers in our dedicated movie room) so I decided to give these a try since she liked the modern clean walnut cabinet and I had always been impressed by Martin Logan speakers in the past and wow these "little guys" are insane even in that big of space. I have them paired with a sub and driven bi-amped with a Cinema50 by Marantz and the room sounds huge and I still get enough volume when needed but no it's not club levels. Overall I love these for the clarity, openness and stereo image (think huge wide soundstage - they are about 13 feet spread apart and fill the wide couch space perfectly while still giving left/right imagining for movies) Highly recommend them even if you have a bigger room to give them a try!

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excellent sound production

Upgraded to these from Kef hts5001.2 and so glad I did. Hearing things in our music that we never heard before. Everything sounds new, fresh and clear. Love these speakers!

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These are the speakers I've been looking for.

These speakers are perfect for my smaller (11x11) listening room, paired with a Parasound HALO Hint 6. You will need to be cognizant that these are 4-ohm speakers, so you need a bit of juice to drive them. The Parasound does this well. I'd also recommend at least one subwoofer. I've paired a couple of B&W 8" subs with these and 2-channel listening in my room is exactly what I want it to be. These are the speakers I have been waiting for. The imaging and sound stage are gorgeous in any genre I throw at them. I had B&W 705 S3's that were exceptionally bright to the point of causing fatigue for me. Although I don't listen to multichannel often, I do have the Parasound set up with a home theater bypass to my Marantz SR5015, and these B100's are also amazing as fronts in an Atmos setup.

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Super Smooth

Always have been intrigued by Martin Logan as I followed them since the original development of their full size electrostatic speaker. Heard their prototype in Lawrence. The Monolith was ground breaking. But never had room/space/cash for their full on electrostatics though. Fast forward a few decades: Intrigued by Martin Logan's FMT, so I picked up a pair sight unseen to replace an aging NHT C20 office system. I had acoustically evolved to a mostly full Bryston/Purist/Sennheiser system kind of a guy. Was going to put in a pair of Bryston tower speakers but wanted to be able to control the base in my sound awkward smaller stuffed office. SO: These ML are really incredible. Smooth, detailed, articulate, clean, clear, great soundstage and presence, etc. Fully Agree with Macintosh/ML electrostatic reviewer above. He said it well. Was a bit thin in the lower end, so I added in their smallest app controlled sub, Dynamo 800x. What a great combination! Mesh well and provide a great beautiful full sound with easily controllable (and easy setup) deep bass. I'm pulling out CD's I haven't listened to in years:)

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MartinLogan Motion XT B100

Using as a center channel, excellent results

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MartinLogan Motion XT B100

Some context first. We have MartinLogan electrostats (Classic 9 and ESL X), and each set has been connected to our McIntosh C53 preamp and McIntosh MC462 amp, so we're confident that these loudspeakers can perform their best, and they have; they're lovely, with or without subwoofer backup from our MartinLogan 1100X. We've also demoed KEF LS50 Meta and KEF R2 Meta loudspeakers, as well as Revel Performa M106, F206, and F208 models, with this preamp/amp combo (all in stereo 2.0 or 2.1 configuration). We also tried the precursor to the XT B100, the 35XTi. Naturally, each speaker exhibited strengths and weaknesses. We used CD, vinyl (on a Marantz TT-15), and, most often, hi-res Tidal streams, and no medium magically transformed these speakers into transcendent transducers, so we have a firm sense of what each can do. The B100 loudspeakers, when integrated properly with the ML 1100X subwoofer (phase merely inverted worked best), outperform every one of these speakers, even the Classic 9 electrostats, which, for all their sensuous shimmer, can generate neither the attack and articulacy nor the atmosphere and staging that the B100 pair can generate. This finding has stunned us. MartinLogan has built a standmount speaker that turns their "Masterpiece" passive electrostat into an also-ran. Using a good sub with the B100s is a must for full range, but, after that, the sound is truly great. Update 1.8.24: When each speaker is powered by its own high-current amplifier--in this case, one Parasound Halo A 23+ for EACH speaker (using one channel for treble and the other channel for bass, all direct-wired)--the XT B100 (now "broken in") can produce clean, solid, articulate bass down to 34Hz (-6dB). That's not a typo: "34Hz." Spectrographs thus show that the manufacturer-specified "45Hz" (-3dB) is, indeed, achievable. It's just a question of the quality and quantity of power provided. (Positioning and room dynamics also matter, of course.) Our updated finding places the XT B100 above any other bookshelf we've auditioned.

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MartinLogan Motion XT B100

Very clean open sound bass midrange treble all great

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