MartinLogan
MartinLogan is a premium HiFi speaker brand known for electrostatic loudspeaker technology and its philosophy of the "Truth in Sound."
Last updated September 15, 2026
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Overview
MartinLogan is a premium HiFi speaker brand offering speakers, wireless systems, soundbars, powered subwoofers, architectural and outdoor models. The brand states that it harnesses the technical advantages of electrostatic principles to recreate sound in its truest form, a philosophy it calls "Truth in Sound." Its name derives from founders Gayle Martin Sanders and Ron Logan Sutherland, who met in the late 1970s at a high-end audio store Sanders managed in Lawrence, Kansas, and who shared a passion for music and electrostatic loudspeakers.
History
MartinLogan's name comes from its founders, Gayle Martin Sanders and Ron Logan Sutherland; Sanders explained that "MartinLogan 'just sounded better than SandersSutherland.'" The two met in the late '70s at a high-end audio store Sanders managed in Lawrence, Kansas. Despite very different backgrounds—Sanders had trained in architecture and advertising, Sutherland in electrical engineering—they shared a passion for music and, they soon discovered, electrostatic loudspeakers. The brand describes itself as harnessing the myriad technical advantages of electrostatic principles to recreate sound in its truest form, a philosophy it calls "Truth in Sound."
Products and positioning
Premium HiFi speakers; "Truth in Sound" — uncompromising performance, unflinching accuracy, unwavering reliability.
Neolith
Described by MartinLogan as the embodiment of its philosophy of the Truth in Sound, with unconstrained performance.
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