Customer Ratings & Reviews

Combined with the XTB bookshelf, and XTC center, the XTF floor standing speakers are the bext audio I have ever heard...period! Making room for these monsters is well worth it. They are very heavy and very tall and there is a very good reason for both. They sound simply amazing. But you can tell they put a lot into the design as well. They look awesome as well. But these are all about the audio experience and although its difficult to put into writing what someone hears Ill give it a shot. First tested was some of my favorite music. And a lot of these songs I had listened to for the most part with high end head phones. And I thought that was the best they could sound. I was wrong. It was like a completely different experience through the Martin Logan set up. And specifically the bass coming from the 6.5” drivers. When I was younger and into car audio I use to think all that mattered was volume, specifically BOOM. Older now I like my bass to be crisp, tight, and have accuracy over increased noise. But dont get me wrong. Im not saying these cant slam, they most definitely can and will if you want them to. But where I was most impressed was with the movie experience. Like most Marvel blockbusters. Its as close to a movie theater experience you can get without forking over $20. Rewatching movies I had seen several times was like watching them for the first time with audio the way the sound and music composers meant for their creations to sound. Extremely clear dialogue, amazing surround, and perfect bass deliver sound that has to be heard to believed. Martin Logan knocked it out of the park with the XT100 series.

For a long time I heard about Martin Logan brand spearkers, but to be honest, I wasnt sure how good they were until I got the 2 Floorstanding F100 model speakers. They are amazing. Even the packaging reflects the level of quality and care Martin Logan invests on their products. They are really well packaged, it took me some quite time to unpackage them, but I realized that I was in front of a really high end product and I was feeling more curious about the sound quality they can deliver. The Speakers are heavy, no doubt, 76 pounds. Which tells me that the engineers have spared no efforts in the design of a robust enclosure (and this is very important because you want to isolate the negative sound that comes naturally from the back of the speaker efficiently without affecting the displacing performance of the speaker movement), and big magnets. My old man used to say, about high end sound equipment, “the heavier, the better.” Even if nowadays many designers have reduce significantly the size and weight of the components like transformers, magnets and big capacitors, that statement is still valid today. When I was in university, my teacher told us that everything about speakers, formulas, enclosure design, etc, was written in a book that I still have from the 1950’s. However Martin Logan has proved that there is still much more to offer. Starting by the look, they are good looking set of speakers that you will feel proud to have in your living room as part of the rest of the furniture. Mine are Gloss Black, shiny, stylish. Setup is simple, each speaker comes with an accessory box that includes the “leg support”, in 2 different ways, spikes for carpeting or rubber feet for hardwood flooring, which are easy to install with the provided allen wrench tool. A very nice and useful black soft bag to cover them, and the QR code to download the instruction manual, which I always recommend to read it in order to familiarize better with any product you get. In this case, just go to page 13. There you will see the specifications which will help you to understand what kind of amplifier and cables you might need depending on the power that you amp is capable to deliver. The overall design is up to date, elegant with nice speaker grilles. So, basically, you want to focus on the RMS value, not the PMPo or any peak Power sound concept that many brands invented years ago in order to mask the lack of power of their speakers and Amps. These speakers are rated to reach a max of 225 rms watts at 4 ohms, which is high, but will they deliver the same high fidelity, balanced, clarity harmonious at high or low power sound, while you are increasing or decreasing the knob volume?. You are looking for a consistence quality sound, that is exactly what I have found these speakers are capable to deliver. You have to understand that with a Power of 225watts at 4ohms, if you do the formula, at the maximum volume level with a Powerful amp, these speaker will be running 8amps each one, considering that you have an amplifier capable to deliver that amount of power, only half way you still have 4amps running on each speaker, which is a lot. So that tells you that you need a good set of quality, thick, stranded speaker wire cables. The thicker they are, the better, because will offer less resistance and therefore will be more efficient. At the back you will see that there is an impressive high quality speaker audio connectors, with a metal bridge, for 2 kind of connectivity configuration, single wire connection and bi wire connection. Just use the single wire connection, which means, leave the metal bridge in place and connect your negative and positive output of your amp in the corresponding speaker connector. I have an old school Yamaha 200watts at 4 ohms per channel amplifier, signal noise ratio of 97db, 0,008THD that was stored in my garage waiting for a set of speakers like these ones to prove its value. Since my old set of Polk Speakers got ruined by a flood some time ago, and I was just surviving with a soundbar. So my configuration is as follows, 200 watts Yamaha Amplifier, 200watts 12in Klipsch Subwoofer, 10 gauge speaker cables, and a Technics Turntable with Grado Cartridge and stylus, and a Bluetooth audio converter. On page 8 of the manual Martin Logan recommends to break-in the speakers for 72 hours at 90 dB, before you start to seriously consider the listening. I found this very interesting, but it really makes a lot of sense. So, I was ready to start with what I consider is a challenging symphony for any Sound equipment, 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky, and the reason I choose this symphony is because of the sound variations, low and high frequencies will be put in test, and also by the canons at the end. I started just with the 25% of the sound power volume, and the clarity and definition of the violins were amazing, then I increased until the 50%, and was holding the balance between instruments, clarity, colorful sound without any distortion. And I forget to decrease the volume and while I was thinking that the canons will ruin the good moment I was having, I was surprised, the epic final of the symphony, which I am pretty sure it easily reached peaks of 8amps, was perfectly clear, like being in the actual music hall listening live. So, my next candidate was the Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven, because I want to hear the chorus, and the end of the 4th Movement. These speakers are capable to really differentiate very well the voices and instruments, I was very impressed. Again, I tested between 50% and 65% of the sound volume, and all the way the speakers were able to hold the clarity and definition for every instrument. Finally I tried a couple of songs, the John Lennon’s Starting Over in Vinyl, because I want to hear the beginning dreamy solo section, and John’s beautiful voice. And then I tested the mp3 song Royals by Lorde, to see how performs the BASS. Both songs sounded fantastic. Then I tried the many 4 phases and quad Vinyl records I have, just to recall how much I used to enjoy to listen how the songs should sound. Martin Logan has resurrected the right way to listen, appreciate and enjoy the music, if you are a music lover like me, the listening from these speakers, the quality and power they are capable to deliver is a very pleasant experience, not to mention that they look great!

These are by far the best speakers ive ever heard. The midrange is perfect and the bass can be felt. The highs are very clean they make me smile everytime i listen to them