MartinLogan Masterpiece CI Series Brochure
Masterpiece CI Series
High-Performance In-Wall and In-Ceiling Loudspeakers
Truth in Sound
State-of-the-art Truth in Sound:
Masterpiece
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CI Series offers
the biggest, boldest, and most
lifelike performance possible.
We consider something a masterpiece when skill and artistry shape
the familiar in unexpected ways, revealing an essential truth.
For MartinLogan, the essential truth is astonishing and unprecedented audio realism.
From extreme home theater to transcendent 2-channel listening, Masterpiece CI achieves
the pinnacle of discreet in-wall and in-ceiling loudspeaker design: state-of-the-art Truth in
Sound that takes up no floor space. Featuring lightning-fast, low-distortion, Folded Motion XT
Obsidian tweeters, handcrafted Vojtko crossover networks, and unidirectional carbon fiber
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multi-section cone drivers with Nomex
delivers astonishing realism. This is a loudspeaker that is a tribute to the acoustic achievements
of MartinLogan’s original iconic masterpiece, our flagship floorstanding electrostatic speakers.
backers, each model of the Masterpiece CI Series
This new generation of custom installation loudspeakers artfully blends over 30 years of
audio design and engineering innovation, refining it into a startling fresh loudspeaker ideal.
Each model features a family of exclusive, interlinked MartinLogan technologies
that achieve a level of performance beyond that of traditional speakers.
MartinLogan presents a rare opportunity for you to own your own Masterpiece.
Let us show you.
The Masterpiece CI Series by MartinLogan
• FORT Y DRIVERS
• SIXTEEN TWEETERS: FOLDED MOTION
• SIXTEEN MID: 3.5 -INCH • EIGHT BAS S: 6.5-INCH
• UNIDIRECTIONAL CARBON FIBER MULTI-SECTION CONES WITH NOMEX
• LINE SOURCE CONFIGURATION WITH CONTROLLED DISPERSION SOUND RADIATION
• VOJTKO™ CROSSOVER NETWORK CONSTRUCTED FROM AUDIOPHILE-GR ADE COMPONENTS
• PHENOLIC BAFFLE • SEALED BACK BOX • SURFACE MOUNT GRILLE
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Statement 40XW Tech
If your performance benchmark is MartinLogan’s
most ambitious floorstanding hybrid electrostatic
loudspeakers, it’s going to be quite a challenge to
achieve that level of accuracy and impact in an
in-wall speaker.
Challenge accepted. The Statement 40XW is a
triumph of audio engineering. Its performance
(and sheer size) rivals the very best of our
electrostatic models, with full-on speed and
high-frequency accuracy, incredibly detailed
midrange, and lifelike deep bass impact. And yet
it takes up absolutely no space in your room and
vanishes into any decor.
It’s an incredible sixteen tweeters, and sixteen
mid-range drivers, and eight woofers, arrayed
in a line-source design and built directly into
your wall, delivering awe-inspiring levels of
full-spectrum dynamic output even in the largest
listening areas.
The keys to this performance are superior
components and innovative design. The multidriver design allows each driver and tweeter to
operate with extreme efficiency. This combination
of high-resolution drivers, each working to offset
the demands on the others, results in a highly
accurate and distortion-free performance, even
during the most demanding sonic passages, and
even at realistic volume levels. The large linesource design also ensures the same sonic impact
over a large area of listening positions. There’s no
drop-off, as can be the case with smaller, pointsource designs.
“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we
see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as
many worlds as there are original artists...”
– Marcel Proust
With each channel featuring a mind-boggling
forty drivers, you simply have to hear the
Statement 40XW to believe it.
Statement 40XW—The Benefits of Line
Source Configuration. The line-source
design, a tall vertical array of identical sets
of drivers, shares significant characteristics
with hybrid electrostatic loudspeakers—
something we know a little about.
Like electrostatic speakers, line-source
arrays restrict vertical dispersion, eliminating
the majority of a room’s performancedestroying sound reflections.
In the Statement 40XW, the combination of the
natural 80-degree horizontal dispersion pattern
Dispersion of Statement 40XW
of the Folded Motion XT tweeters, and the sheer
52-inch-tall cliff of vertical tweeters, minimizes
side-wall, floor, and ceiling reflections whose short
arrival times tend to interfere with our perception
of “direct” sound.
The result is a broad, enveloping soundstage, with
an accurate, lifelike rendering of the most subtle
imaging details, even in an ample listening space.
Statement 40XW—Surprisingly Discreet
Installation. Whether you are designing a new
listening room from the ground up or retrofitting
a room back to the studs, it’s the perfect time
to incorporate built-in audio. And if you’re
planning a larger than average space, it’s worth
considering a massive line-source loudspeaker
that both vanishes into your decor, and puts even
the farthest seat in the sweet spot.
The Statement 40XW incorporates a reinforced,
sealed, acoustically-inert back box enclosure
that isolates and decouples the drivers from the
wall surface.
This sealed box enclosure, with its uniform volume
and material, eliminates in-wall variables from
the acoustic equation, guaranteeing a consistent,
accurate performance in any installation. The
sealed design also effectively eliminates audio
leak-through into adjoining rooms.
It fits comfortably between studs and works with
both 1/2- or 5/8-inch wallboard.
The low profile, paintable, micro-perforated grille
presents a clean, near-invisible aesthetic. One of
the world’s most incredible audio performances,
from practically invisible loudspeakers!
• SEVEN DRIVERS
• ONE TWEETER: FOLDED MOTION
• ONE MID: 6.5-INCH • TWO BASS: 6.5 -INCH • THR EE PASSIVE: 6.5-INCH
• UNIDIRECTIONAL CARBON FIBER MULTI-SECTION CONES WITH NOMEX
• VOJTKO™ CROSSOVER NETWORK CONSTRUCTED FROM AUDIOPHILE-GR ADE COMPONENTS
• PHENOLIC BAFFLE • SEALED BACK BOX • DIE-CAST ALUMINUM MOUNTING-LOCK SYSTEM
• PRE-INSTALL BRACKETS (SOLD SEPARATELY)
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Dispersion of Icon 3XW,
Tribute 5XW, and Monument 7XW
Masterpiece CI Tech
Folded Motion® XT Obsidian Tweeters.
MartinLogan’s signature Folded Motion
tweeter is a miracle of audio engineering. Its
folded thin-film diaphragm gives it a much
larger surface area than traditional dome
tweeters of the same size. This “squeezing”
design requires significantly less excursion
than a dome tweeter, too, revealing controlled
dispersion characteristics and vanishingly low
distortion. These tiny tweeters mimic the highfrequency detail and response speed of a
large electrostatic panel in a small space.
Masterpiece CI Series steps up the game
with the Folded Motion XT Obsidian
tweeters, which advance thin-film
transducer technology even further.
The Folded Motion XT design features a 40%
larger radiating surface and 80 x 30-degree
controlled dispersion. This innovation increases
audible bandwidth without sacrificing details
and minimizes distortion to an unprecedented
level, even while increasing the efficiency of the
tweeter’s already lightning-fast response time.
The result is superior realism and
alarming specificity. Folded Motion XT
takes thin-film transducers to the next
level—it’s aurally astonishing.
“What would life be if we had no
courage to attempt anything?”
– Vincent Van Gogh
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