Cable suggestions for Martin Logan

Martin Logan uses MIT and Transparent through their reference system and the factory. ( per- recent stereophile interview ) You may want to try moving further up the MIT food chain?

I sort of specialize in electrostats, as an owner of and dealer for Sound Labs and owner of Quad 57's. I conducted a rather extensive search of speaker cables to find what worked well, and found that cables with wide, flat geometries which minimize skin effect (such as the Goertz mentioned above) work the best. Such a geometry audibly improves clarity and dynamic contrast by reducing time smear (more significant with an electrostat than with less coherent designs), and since a flat cable has absolutely zero series inductance that delicious top-end air of the electrostats is preserved. Their typical low impedance at high frequencies makes electrostats especially sensitive to being dulled by a cable with series inductance.

The best speaker cable I found in its price range is the Magnan Signature, so I became a Magnan dealer. The Magnan Signature is probably the ultimate expression of the wide, flat geometry. I also like Goertz and Analysis Plus (and sell the latter), both of which take steps to minimize skin effect and series inductance. In my experience networked cables don't work particularly well with electrostats (I used to have MIT Terminiator 2's and MH-770's, and have tried others). I find most Nordost cables to sound thin with electrostats, with the notable exception of the superb Valhalla.

One of my Martin-Logan customers tells me that it's worthwhile to use the Magnan Signature on both the panels and woofers, which gets a bit pricey. I would have thought you could get away with just using the MagSigs on the panels, but he says the improvement in coherence is significant. So, for what it's worth, I pass that along as a vote in favor of using the same cable on both woofer and panel.

Best of luck to you, Sugarbie!

Use MillerSound Giants.. the Same speakerwire as JPS Superconductor 2. Great stuff at Beer prices. Steve

Bill at Miller Sound is not making cables anymore.

If you search the Agon classifieds there are some for sale used.

Just my 2 cents. I have Martin logan Odyssey's for my left and right main speakers, Martin logan Theater for my center channel and Aerius i's for my surrounds. I'm a great fan of Martin Logan and have tried many combinations of amps and cables to get the most out them. Currently, I have settled on Krell for my power and processing. I output 300/600 (8 ohm/4ohm) watts to each of the five channels and the new Krell HTS 3 handles the processing. As for the cables, I found that silver is not the answer for Martin Logans. Too bright, Too quick, and just sounds down right bad. I've tried high end products from Nordost, Transparent, Audioquest, and Kimber. Finally I've settled on Audioquest Volcano Biwire cables. They've brougt out the most sound from the marting logan's and yet sound very neutral. I would highly recommend them, however, if the cost is more than you wish to spend, My second choice, and for the money, my first choice, would be Audioquest Caldera Biwire's. In fact, I have a great friend who is using them on Martin Logan Prodigy's right now, with Classe amplification, and it sounds great. A word to the wise, as for cables, NEVER pay retail. There's way too many people selling online at drastic discounts on new and demo cables.
Let me know what you go with and how it works out.