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Look at these for 200 dollars and no bids...They look like the original Martin Logan Statements that were a 100k back in the late 80s to early 90s but they had the bass towers as well which were dynamic woofers.
Anyway,one of these has damage but it doesn't look bad from the pics..They look like the Martin Logan panels but maybe they are Sound Labs? You need the bias networks and you need an audio output transformer..The Plitron would be best.They are a project and the guy would probably take a 100 dollars for them if you can drive and get them I would guess because they didn't sell at 200 dollars.
Honest amplification is better than excessive 2nd order distortion anytime.
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Personally I'd make sure Martin Logan sells replacement panels for any given model (and at what cost) before I'd buy any used/damaged ML speaker.
There are quite a few models that they no longer sell panels for at any price... if that's the case you are SOL.
At best they were perhaps a prototype of the Martin Logan Statement but I seriously doubt that. They look more like a very poor copy of the first Statement speaker.
You can clearly see this speaker has two panels with no real panel resonance distribution. The real deal was a single element with resonance distribution. The frame is different in design and of poor quality something you would never find in Martin-Logan.
AFAIK, Martin Logan is the only company using curved panels. The ones I have heard sounded great, but you'd really be taking on a lot with these. I agree that they are the electrostatic panels for Statements. Maybe he will donate them to a thrift store...
Dave
I see there were two "Statements", the base and E2. The former running $55k while the $120k model was quite different looking:
That one looks very different from the one I am familiar with. I like the look. Very modern.
Dave
I first learned of the Statement speaker on the VTL website. At a show in 1998, this system was judged "Best in Show" tri-amped with three pair of Wotans.
Nothing succeeds like excess using a gross of 6550 outputs with 3600 watts of triode tube power!
Statements were tall multi-way stats like yours with huge four driver woofer towers.
See pics here
The one to which you linked appears to be some CLS flavor.
Ralf
They can't be CLS speakers because they are seven feet tall..The reason I think they may be original monoliths is because someone may built another frame for the panels.
Honest amplification is better than excessive 2nd order distortion anytime.
Edits: 04/15/14
CLS were about 4 feet tall ( I owned a pair at one time)
Statements were seven feet tall (worked in the statement system once)
Monoliths were 6 feet tall but included a woofer in the bottom of the panels and were about 2 feet wide if memory serves me correctly.
My first thought was the CLS as well, but nope, that's not it. See linked article.
And to split hairs, they were six feet tall including the stands according to Martin-Logan's product page.
I was thinking of the E2 flavor which is seven feet tall.
Statement E2
They use a single full range panel with faceted frames of varying heights to distribute resonances and control directivity.
What in the world would make a pair of speakers like that originally worth 100k except the name?
Very problematic speaker system. Had a customer who bought a pair and could never get them working properly, finally when the veneer on woofer towers started peeling off, he returned them for cash and a couple pairs of smaller units.
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