MartinLogan Dealer in Clearwater and Pinellas County
A MartinLogan Masterpiece dealer, carrying the full line of electrostatic speakers from Lawrence, Kansas, designed into your room and tuned by people who measure it first. Serving Clearwater, St. Petersburg and all of Tampa Bay.
A Different Kind of Speaker, From Lawrence, Kansas
Entertainment Pros is a MartinLogan Masterpiece dealer in Clearwater, serving Pinellas County and the rest of Tampa Bay. Masterpiece is the tier that carries the full line, including MartinLogan's flagship electrostatics, rather than only the in wall and subwoofer models. MartinLogan has been building electrostatic speakers in Lawrence, Kansas since the early 1980s, and we chose the line for one reason: an electrostatic speaker does something a box speaker cannot.
Instead of pushing air with a cone, an electrostatic panel moves an ultra thin film across its whole surface at once. There is almost nothing to start and stop, so the sound is fast, open and unusually clear. People who thought they were finished upgrading tend to sit back down when they hear it.
They are also unusually sensitive to the room, which is the other reason we carry them. A MartinLogan set up carelessly is a waste of a great speaker. Set up by somebody who measures the room first, it is the best sound in the house.
How an Electrostatic Speaker Makes Sound
Three layers, high voltage, and a film you can barely see. Here is what is happening inside the panel.
A film thinner than a hair
The diaphragm is a conductive plastic film stretched between two perforated steel stators. A human hair is roughly eight times thicker.
The whole surface moves
The diaphragm holds a fixed charge. The music signal, stepped up to high voltage, charges the two stators with opposite polarity, so the film is pushed from one side and pulled from the other at the same time.
A true dipole
Sound leaves the front and the back of the panel equally. The two waves cancel at the sides, which cuts down reflections off the side walls, and the wave off the wall behind adds depth.
Why Placement Decides How They Sound
Because an electrostatic panel sends sound backward as well as forward, the space behind the speakers is part of the speaker. Too close to the wall and the depth collapses. Pulled out the right distance and toed in toward your seat, the panels seem to vanish and the music fills the space between and behind them.
That is why we will not quote you a model over the phone. We look at the room, where the seat can go and what is behind the speakers first. Then we set them up, measure, listen with you in the chair, and move them until it is right. With these speakers, a few inches really does change what you hear.
The panels are also see through, so a pair of MartinLogans takes up far less visual space than its size suggests. In a Florida living room full of light, that matters more than people expect.
What MartinLogan Makes
The short version. Which line fits depends on your room, and that is a conversation we have after we have seen it.
Electrostatic hybrids
The heart of the brand, up to and including the Masterpiece Series flagships. An electrostatic panel handles the voice and the detail, and a conventional woofer handles the deep bass below it. This is the speaker people mean when they say MartinLogan.
Motion series
Conventional speakers built around MartinLogan's Folded Motion tweeter. A strong choice for rooms that also serve as a TV room, or where the speakers need to sit closer to the wall.
Subwoofers
Built to keep up with the speed of an electrostatic panel, so the bass blends instead of lagging behind. Placement and tuning here are as important as the sub itself.
In wall and in ceiling
Architectural speakers for rooms where nothing can sit on the floor, and for the rest of the house once the listening room is done.
Is MartinLogan Right for You?
We would rather tell you now than after you have bought them.
A great fit if
- You sit down and actually listen, at least some of the time
- The speakers can come out from the wall behind them
- You love voices, acoustic instruments and the space around them
- You want a big sound without a big wooden box in the room
Maybe something else if
- The speakers have to sit flat against a wall or inside a cabinet
- The room is mostly for movies and the music is in the background
- You want the most bass from the smallest possible speaker
- Then we will point you to the Motion series, in wall speakers, or another approach that suits the room
Your Local MartinLogan Dealer in Pinellas County
We are based in Clearwater and design, install and tune MartinLogan systems throughout Pinellas County, with work in west Hillsborough and west Pasco too. We work by appointment, which means when we are with you, we are only with you.
Outside Tampa Bay? We also travel to design and set up listening rooms, and we can help you choose the right MartinLogan system wherever you are. See how we design two-channel listening rooms.
- Clearwater
- St. Petersburg
- Palm Harbor
- Dunedin
- Largo
- Safety Harbor
- Tarpon Springs
- Belleair
- Seminole
- Oldsmar
- Tampa
- All of Pinellas County