MartinLogan

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MartinLogan Ltd.
2101 Delaware St.
Lawrence, KS 66046
U.S.A.
  • Founded by Gayle Martin Sanders and Ron Logan Sutherland (they probably thought that "MartinLogan" sounded better than "SandersSutherland" or even "GayleRon").
  • End of the 1970s first considerations to improve the "electrostats" known since about 1920
  • 1980 first prototype made of aluminium foil, but it "went up in smoke" quickly
  • further experiments led to an ultra-light, transparent Mylar film
  • 1982 concept was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago and won the CES Design and Engineering Award
  • At the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show, the prototype of the Monolith was presented to great acclaim.

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