Further Electrostatic Adventures ... the Martin Logan Montis
Martin Logan Summit X - Perhaps the best Hybrid Electrostat on the planet? Certainly one of the better 'stats My first real "Hi Fi" experience was about 1998 or so. I had just moved into a house in San Jose, CA - a little shoebox of a place, but even then being able to afford and move into a house was a bit of an achievement due to the astronomical cost of housing in that area (and in subsequent years, it has even got more out of bed with incomes as waves of startup IPO money continued pushing up prices). The point of this was that I wasn't exactly rolling in cash at the time having put my life savings into the downpayment, so I was only seeking a Tivoli Radio for the kitchen given the great FM reception and reasonable sound. I wandered into a Magnolia Hi Fi whose newspaper ad indicated they had them. And had them they did, but as I walked passed an open listening room I was promptly blown away - I had never heard sound reproduction sound so clean and goo...