MartinLogan Motion XTC8-HT In-Ceiling Speaker
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MartinLogan Motion XTC8-HT In-Ceiling Speaker
MartinLogan
In-Ceiling Speaker
Designed for real-world listening, the XTC8 “HT” uses angled drivers to aim sound directly at you, not the floor. Perfect for home theatre and larger spaces, especially as front or centre channels, it overcomes the limitations of traditional in-ceiling speakers that fire straight down.
The result is clearer dialogue, better imaging, and a noticeably improved listening experience, even when speakers are installed further away. It’s equally effective in whole-home audio setups where listening positions are off-axis.
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DIMENSIONS
Step up to superior in-ceiling sound with the MartinLogan Motion XT CI series. Featuring an upgraded Folded Motion XT tweeter for bigger, clearer output, plus lightweight Kevlar woofers with Nomex backing to minimise distortion, every note comes through with precision. A reinforced chassis adds stability for even greater accuracy. The result? Powerful, detailed sound, built into every detail.
The Sound of Invisibility: Folded Motion® Tweeters
MartinLogan's signature Folded Motion Tweeters utilise an extremely low-mass diaphragm that "squeezes" air, thus requiring significantly less excursion than the typical 1-inch dome tweeter. Its folded design allows for a much larger surface area (compared to a regular 1-inch dome tweeter), controlled dispersion characteristics, and vanishingly low distortion. It's a miracle of audio engineering that delivers much of the high-frequency detail, speed, and response of a large, dynamic electrostatic panel in a small space.
This thin-film transducer design packs all the accuracy and delicacy of an electrostatic panel into a small room. Folding the dramatically lightweight film into an accordion-like structure increases the surface area, giving Folded Motion Tweeters 8 to 10 times greater surface area than typical tweeters.
This ideal combination of light and large produces superior accuracy, extended frequency bandwidth and higher output capability. All with a faster, more efficient transient response, and virtually zero distortion. Thanks to these characteristics, the Folded Motion Tweeter design can mimic the performance of a large electrostatic panel in the confines of a more traditional loudspeaker enclosure.
Woven Kevlar Cones
Built for speed and precision, Motion XT CI speakers use ultra-light woven Kevlar cones to keep up with the Folded Motion Tweeter XT. A hidden Nomex backing further reduces distortion, delivering cleaner, more natural sound with exceptional clarity. Invisible by design, but critical to performance.
Across the range, every Motion XT CI speaker is tuned for consistent, high-end sound and effortless pairing with other MartinLogan speakers, so you can create a perfectly matched system for your space.
The MartinLogan Sound
MartinLogan Motion XT CI speakers sound great in any room. Regardless of the environment, MartinLogan speakers just sound better, more articulate, more detailed, and more realistic. With Controlled Dispersion and one of the most responsive tweeters in the industry, MartinLogan's in-wall and in-ceiling models can compete with and often exceed the performance of traditional cabinet speakers.
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Versatility: Distributed Audio, Music, and Home Theatre
More and more homes today are being either built or retrofitted with whole-house audio systems.
Whether you want quality sound in the kitchen or dedicated home theatre, MartinLogan Installer, Helos, Motion CI, Motion XT CI, and Masterpiece CI speakers deliver premium audio while disappearing into the wall or ceiling. With a wide range of products that suit all budgets, no room cannot be enhanced by MartinLogan sound. Easy installation to the wall or ceiling means that your audio sings without calling visual attention to itself. Great sound just happens.
Open Floor Plan Rooms
MartinLogan Motion CI in-wall and in-ceiling speakers feature Controlled Dispersion to improve the clarity and overall quality of your music and media. Room acoustics are extremely important. Everything in the listening room has an impact on the sound of your speakers, so MartinLogan tries to minimise the things that can cause harm to let you hear exactly what you are supposed to.
MartinLogan's design and engineering ensure that sound is focused where you want it. This is done by creating a specific area where sound is heard most clearly, bordered by a falloff zone where volume decreases smoothly and rapidly. This can help keep the sound within the room and make your media room a place where rich and full sound can be enjoyed without disturbing those in other parts of the home.
The benefits are twofold: less distracting sound where you don't want it, and clearer, more accurate sound where you do. Since the sound is focused onto the parts of the room that really matter, where your ears are, Controlled Dispersion helps avoid unwanted sound reflections that mask and colour the true clarity of the content.
With Controlled Dispersion, you hear more from your music and movies by freeing the sound from some of the harmful effects that room acoustics can have.
Rooms With Vaulted Ceilings
Vaulted ceilings may present a challenge to designers of in-speaker ceilings. MartinLogan meets that challenge with the brand's Folded Motion Tweeter. This remarkable device produces incredibly detailed sound that can be directed precisely where it's needed, preventing sound from bleeding into other parts of the home.
Motion CI in-ceiling speakers use the FMT to project sound into specific areas of the room, which makes them ideal for object-oriented systems like Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and Auro3D. The film's audio effects work in sync with the visual elements, so sound comes from all directions — around and above the listener.
The FMT directs sound precisely into your listening area, ensuring height and in-wall channels stay clear and powerful, even across distance. By focusing audio where it matters (your seating position) instead of dispersing it into unused spaces like ceilings, it minimises unwanted reflections and reduces sound spill into other areas of your home. The result is cleaner, more immersive sound.
Spring-Loaded Binding Posts
With easy pre-installation access, MartinLogan's spring-loaded bringing posts feature a large 4.5mm wire access hole and connect via banana plug, pin, or 12AWG bare wire.
Micro-Perforated Grilles
Proprietary Vojtko™ Crossover Networks
Vojtko Crossovers are named after MartinLogan's chief audio technologist, Joe Vojtko.
HIs unique approach to crossover design is just as crucial to MartinLogan's Truth in Sound as the brand's innovative electrostatic and Folded Motion thin-film driver technologies. A Vojtko Crossover isn't just a set of design requirements, it's a philosophy.
Vojtko Crossovers are hand-built form the highest quality components and avoid overly complex topologies. This crossover has a straightforward objective: breathtaking realism.
Hand-Selected Components
In designing each crossover topology, MartinLogan takes the drivers themselves into consideration. Carefully selected drivers, engineered for specific performance characteristics, are kept within their optimal frequency range by the custom Vojtko Crossover.
Each crossover is handcrafted using exceptional polypropylene and polyester capacitors, custom wound and large steel laminate low-DCR inductors, and double thick PCBs. This precision-tuned network preserves even the most mocroscopic sonic nuances while handling the full dyanmics of any source. It's a recipe for vanishingly low distortion and seamless driver integration.
The most critical aspect of a Vojkto Crossover design is the final voicing, always conducted in a real-world environment. This uniquely pragmatic appraoch gurantees that even the most amazing MartinLogan loudspeakers deliver Truth In Sound in any room, including yours.
Optional Retrofit Enclosure
Pre-Installation Brackets (sold separately)
Let customers speak for us
Solidly built! Looks good with the KEF R3 and seems very stable . Since it was designed specifically for the R3 the mounting screws adds the robustness and stability. Definitely a good addition.
One of my best investments to have made this purchase! Straight out of the box was a “WOW!” The channel separations and layering of instruments were all so revealing and pairs perfectly with KEF R3 Meta!
It improved the sound and image quality
Works wonderfully with my LSX II LT, makes them sound much fuller! Enjoying every moment of using them.
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Excellent soundbar, no issue with it except for lack of subwoofer
Good , well made and flexible ..
Sounded good before run in
Sounds great, works perfectly with my devices through AirPlay, and game consoles through Toslink via an HDMI splitter. App is very convenient as well, well designed and a joy to use for any adjustments.
The Bluesound Node Icon has been excellent performer all round. Very responsive to all my music streaming services, including the USB Thumbdrive I connected via the back of the unit.
I am so glad that Bluesound has retained its touch sensitive feature on the top, now I don’t get any fingerprint smudges all over the main screen which can be very irritating to look at. Its proximity sensor works great too.
Sounds great and delightful on my system which comprises a Rega Brio integrated amplifier and a pair Klipsch horn speakers.
Thank you Atlas S&V for the exceptional service and delivery.
