I enjoyed Martin-Logan hybrid speakers for 24 years continuously (Monolith, then Monolith III and then Prodigy for 18 years). So naturally I was very excited about the Neolith when it came out.
I think the Neolith is a total success sonically within the limits of its topology and design and size for audiophiles who value transparency and open soundstage above all else, and who are willing to sacrifice a bit of coherency.* Circa 2016 it was my second favorite planar dipole loudspeaker. I wrote about it on WBF. I still like the Neolith today.
Ultimately I felt that compared to electrostatic drivers ribbon drivers offer slightly greater corporeal body and realism with little to no sacrifice in transparency. This is the main reason I moved away from electrostatic loudspeakers to ribbon loudspeakers.
To the present day I would prefer the Neolith myself personally (using only very high power tube amplifiers) over many similarly priced and more expensively priced box speakers.
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*I used to virtually beg Peter Soderberg of Martin-Logan to reformat the components of the Neolith into a large, four tower Statement E3: 12 inch Neolith midbass driver on the top and on the bottom of the Neolith electrostatic panel, and a separate woofer tower containing four of the 15 inch Neolith woofers.
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