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“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
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 multi-
driver 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 line-
source 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, point-
source designs.
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 performance-
destroying sound reflections.
In the Statement 40XW, the combination of the
natural 80-degree horizontal dispersion pattern