MartinLogan

In-Wall Speaker

Compact, flexible, and powerful, the XTW5-LCR is built for high-performance home theatre. Use it as a centre, front, or surround channel, with a slim rectangular design that fits perfectly around TVs and projector screens.

Its rotatable Folded Motion Tweeter XT lets you fine-tune sound dispersion for the best possible listening experience in any setup.

SPECIFICATIONS
Frequency Response

44 - 25,000 Hz ±3dB

Tweeter Dispersion (horizontal x vertical)

80 x 30 degrees

Recommended Amplifier Power

Range 50–300 Watts

Sensitivity

93dB @2.83V/ 1 meter

Impedance

4 ohms. Compatible with 8 ohms

Crossover Frequency

260, 2470 Hz

High Frequency Driver

FMT Transducer 1.27” x 2.4” (3.22cm x 6.09cm) Opening 4.5” x 2.75” (11.43cm x 6.98cm) Diaphragm

Crossover Type

3 way

Driver Configuration

1 x 1.27” x 2.75” FMT, 1 x 6.5” midrange, 2 x 6.5” Woofers

Woofer Specifications

Two 6.5” (16.51 cm) cast aluminum basket, black Kevlar with Nomex backer cone, Open back chamber format. Concave dust cap.

Cabinet Material

Black w/ White Paintable Grill

Connector

Push style

Components

Custom air core coil inductors, polyester film capacitors in series and low DF electrolytic capacitors FMT thermal/current protection.

Max Power Handling

150 Watts

Midrange Driver

One 6.5” (16.51 cm) cast aluminum basket, black Kevlar with Nomex backer cone, Sealed back chamber format. Concave dust cap

IN THE BOX

Sold per piece

DIMENSIONS
Weight

18.9 lbs. each (8.6 kg)

Dimensions (overall size)

28” x 7.69” x 3.67” (71.12 x 19.5 x 9.31cm)

Required Wall Opening (includes tolerance)

6.64” x 27” (16.9 x 68.5cm)

Projection From Wall Surface

0.13” (0.32cm)

Depth Behind Wall Surface

3.54” (8.99cm)

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.

Learn More About Controlled Dispersion

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

All MartinLogan architectural speakers feature an ultra-low profile, paintable micro-perforated grilles with no visible bezel for a near-invisible integration into any wall or ceiling.

A series of powerful magnets hidden inside the speaker quickly secure grilles into place, reducing the risk of warping or damage during installation.

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.

Pre-Installation Brackets (sold separately)

Pre-installation brackets are available for every 
model in the Motion XT CI Series.