Starting at $199.95 each (US Retail)



Sonic Precision & Sophisticated Styling

Inspired by MartinLogan's ultra-high-end electrostatic loudspeakers, the Motion Series was created to provide stunning sound for your ultimate-performance home theater or stereo. MartinLogan's dedicated in-house engineers carefully crafted the Motion Series to create an extremely affordable and compact product line that seamlessly blends our exquisite Folded Motion™ transducers with powerful, compact bass technology. The result is a smooth, refined sound with stunning dynamic range and jaw-dropping clarity.

Meet The Family

Motion Series speakers are available in floor standing tower and ultra-compact center bookshelf models. Speakers can be mixed-and-matched (along with any of MartinLogan's high-performance subwoofers) to create a stunning solution for any application—from a spectacular high-performance 2-channel music system to an exhilarating multi-channel home theater system. Voice-matched with MartinLogan electrostatic speakers, Motion Series Speakers also offer a perfect solution for compact rear-channel applications in traditional electrostatic based home theater systems.

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Curve Appeal

Complementing Motion's sonic accuracy is elegant yet understated styling. Flawless high-gloss, piano black finishes and subtle curves, along with our signature perforated grille, give Motion Series speakers an elegant and timeless look. Tower models feature a real-wood veneer finish and a stylish aesthetic certain to blend with any decor.

The curves also serve a purpose; they allow Motion compact bookshelves to mount at two different angles with the included wall bracket. This means you can point sound directly toward the desired listening area for high or low wall mounting applications. Beauty and brains!


Hook-ups, Simplified.

Convenient push-style speaker terminals and curved inserts help guide speaker wire effortlessly into place. The rubber end caps on the terminal are also removable for the use of banana plugs instead of bare wire. So simple, you'll actually enjoy hooking up these speakers.

Engineering Genius

What makes the Motion Series sound so amazing? MartinLogan's dedicated in-house engineering team started by utilizing and refining the most advanced, compact technologies and combining them with innovative engineering. The result is an emotionally engaging sound that rivals (and most times trounces) traditional loudspeakers of similar size and price. Although our engineers won't reveal exactly how they make the sausage, here are a few technologies that help give MartinLogan Motion Series such a unique sound:

Folded Motion™ Tweeter

Never settle. That's exactly what's on the minds of our engineers when they develop every MartinLogan speaker. Just take a look at the innovative Folded Motion Tweeter. This exotic tweeter—you know, similar to other tweeter technologies found on ultra-high-end speakers—helps gives Motion speakers their fantastically realistic highs. Lightning fast transient response, combined with a large surface area (8-times that of a typical 1" dome tweeter) creates clear, highly dynamic and precise sound.

This is one sweet tweeter.
The Folded Motion Tweeter works by moving air (which creates sound) perpendicular to the folded ridges of the diaphragm, similar to how an accordion works. This extremely low mass diaphragm "squeezes" air and requires almost 90% less excursion than the typical 1" dome tweeter, which drastically minimizes distortion while providing a lightning fast response time. The increased surface area also provides a wide, yet controlled sound dispersion to create a realistic and carefully etched sound stage.

Folded Motion™ Cascading Bass Port (Motion 4 only)

MartinLogan engineers were faced with a daunting task—create a compact speaker with low-end bass reproduction found in speakers much, much larger. After many sleepless night and a myriad of prototypes, they created the Folded Motion Cascading Bass Port. This brilliant solution allows a long tuned port, which is folded over itself (think of a trombone's tuning arm) to be compacted and squeezed into the Motion 4. The result is amazingly detailed low bass that can play at high volumes with minimum distortion—all thanks to the elegantly simple cascading fold that slows down and controls the air motion of the bass waves.



Recommended Systems

You want home theater to be simple, right? Just add an award winning Dynamo Subwoofer to any Motion Series system for the perfect finish to an already amazing theater package. What could be easier? Here are a few fantastic systems we've put together to help make movies and music sound better than you ever thought possible.

Bookshelf Systems

 Great Super Fantastic Ultimate
Fronts Motion 2 Motion 4 Motion 4 Motion 4
Center Motion 6 Motion 6 Motion 8 Motion 8
Surrounds (5.1) Motion 2 Motion 2 Motion 4 Motion 4
Surrounds (7.1) — — — Motion 4
Subwoofer Dynamo 500 Dynamo 700 Dynamo 700 Dynamo 1000
System Price (US retail) $1,594.75 $1,794.75 $2,094.75 $2,894.65
 

Tower Systems

 Great Super Fantastic Ultimate
Fronts Motion 10 Motion 10 Motion 12 Motion 12
Center Motion 6 Motion 8 Motion 8 Motion 8
Surrounds (5.1) Motion 2 Motion 2 Motion 4 Motion 4
Surrounds (7.1) — — — Motion 4
Subwoofer Dynamo 500 Dynamo 700 Dynamo 700 Dynamo 1000
System Price (US retail) $2,194.80 $2,494.80 $3,094.80 $3,894.70