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TM
SCRIPT
user s manual
c l s e l e c t r o s t a t i c
MARTIN LOGAN
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CONTENTS Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Home Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Installation in Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Electrostatic Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Full Range Operation Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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INSTALLATION IN BRIEF We know you are eager to hear your Script loudspeakers, Step 1: Unpacking so this section is provided to allow fast and easy set up. Remove your new Script speakers from their packing. Once you have them operational, please take the time to read, in depth, the rest of the information in this manual. Step 2: Mounting It will give you perspective on how to attain the greatest Mount each Script at its desired location on your front, side, possible performance from this most ex
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INTRODUCTION Congratulations! You have invested in one of the worlds highest quality composite material for acoustical integrity and premier loudspeaker systems. is finished with our attractive custom matte finish. The MartinLogan Script represents the culmination of an Through rigorous testing, the curvilinear electrostatic panel intensive, dedicated group research program directed has proven itself to be one of the most durable and reliable toward establishing a world class reference monitor
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OPERATION AC Power Connection the preamplifier and power amplifier. This results in the Because your Scripts use an internal power supply to ener- power amplifiers being close to the speakers, which may gize their electrostatic cells with high-voltage DC, they must be practically or cosmetically difficult, but if the length of be connected to an AC power source. For this reason they the speaker cables can be reduced to a few meters, sonic are provided with the proper IEC standard power cords. ad
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MOUNTING THE SCRIPT Preparing for Installation 1 The Script is shipped with the wall bracket mounted on Unpack the Script speakers with brackets attached and and positioned to the side of the speaker cabinet, pro- the accessory kit. You should find: tected by micro-foam packing material. Set the Script on its side with the bracket facing up. Loosen the knob on 2 ea. - Script speaker with bracket the bottom and the knob on the top. Swing the bracket 4 ea. - wall anchors down until the bracket is
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Mounting the Script On A Wall Figure 3. Figure 4. 1 Mark a center point on the wall where you want to mount 4 Allow the wall bracket to hang freely, and use a level to the Script, 38 inches above the floor. This point is the assure the wall bracket is perfectly vertical (see figure 5). height recommended by MartinLogan to mount the Script Mark your second wall anchor location at the center of wall bracket and will be the location into which the the slot on the bottom-back of the wall bracket (th
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Figure 5. Figure 6. 5 Move the wall bracket back into position over the wall WARNING! When pivoting the Script into place anchor and place #12 metal washer on one of the screws in step 7, be careful so as not to damage the top and drive it through the slot at the bottom-back of the of the Script cabinet. bracket into the mounting anchor. Do not tighten (see 1 figure 5). / 2 inch rubber spacer is on 7 Check to make sure that a 1- the threaded stud on the bottom of the speaker. Pick up 6 Use a lev
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Figure 7. Figure 8. 8 Position a black rubber spacer over the threaded hole in 10 Your Script is no mounted on the wall (see figure 8). To the top of the speaker cabinet and carefully pivot the top direct the speaker at the listening position, loosen the of the Script into the wall bracket. Carefully move the top and bottom knobs slightly and pivot the speaker to speaker cabinet so that the center of the rubber spacer, the optimum angle. Re-tighten the knobs. the top-support hole, and the thread
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ROOM ACOUSTICS Your Room Terminology This is one of those areas that requires both a little back- Standing Waves ground to understand and some time and experimentation The parallel walls in your room will reinforce certain notes to to attain the best performance from your system. the point that they will sound louder than the rest of the audio spectrum and cause one note bass, boomy bass or Your room is actually a component and an important part tubby bass. For instance, 100Hz represents a
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Rules of Thumb Dipolar Speakers and Your Room Hard vs. Soft Surfaces MartinLogan electrostatic loudspeakers are known as dipolar If the front or back wall of your listening room is soft, it radiators. This means that they produce sound from might benefit you to have a hard or reflective wall in both their fronts and their backs. Consequently, musical opposition. The ceiling and floor should follow the same information is reflected by the wall behind them and may basic guideline as well. However
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DISPERSION INTERACTIONS Controlled Horizontal Dispersion Three Major Types of Dispersion In the field of loudspeaker design, it is a known fact that as Your Scripts launch a 30 degree dispersion pattern when the sound wave becomes progressively smaller than the viewed from above. This horizontal dispersion field gives a transducer producing it, the dispersion of that wave choice of good seats for the performance while minimizing becomes more and more narrow, or directional. This fact interaction
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Figure 1112. As can be seen here, point source concepts invite a great deal of room interaction. While delivering good frequency response to a large listening audience, imaging is consequently confused and blurred. Figure 1314. Even though they suffer from venetian blind effect, angled multiple panel speakers can deliver good imaging, but only to specific spots in the listening area. Figure 1516. A controlled 30-degree cylindrical wave-front, which is a MartinLogan exclusive, offers optimal
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HOME THEATER It had long been the practice of stereo buffs to connect their Surround Speakers. television to the stereo system. The advantage was the use We recommend that the surround speakers play down of the larger speakers and more powerful amplifier of the to 80 Hz or below. The surround speakers contain the stereo system. Even though the sound was greatly improved, it information that makes it appear that planes are flying over was still mono and limited by the broadcast signal. your head.
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ELECTROSTATIC ADVANTAGES How can sound be reproduced by something that you are push-pull operation and is a major contributor to the sonic able to see through? Electrostatic energy makes this possible. purity of the electrostatic concept due to its exceptional linearity and low distortion. Where the world of traditional loudspeaker technology deals with cones, domes, diaphragms and ribbons that Since the diaphragm of an electrostatic speaker is uniformly are moved with magnetism, the world of e
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Full Range Operation The most significant advantage of MartinLogans exclusive narrow, fixed bandwidth of the frequency range, and then transducer technology reveals itself when you look at combined electrically so that the sum of the parts equals examples of other loudspeaker products on the market today. the total signal. While nice in theory, we must deal with real-world conditions. The Script uses no crossover networks above 500 Hz because they are not needed. The Script consists of a single
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MARTINLOGAN EXCLUSIVES TM Curvilinear Line Source (CLS ) Vapor Deposited Film Since the beginning of audio, achieving smooth dispersion The diaphragm material used in all MartinLogan speakers has been a problem for all loudspeaker designers. Large panel employs an extremely sophisticated conductive surface transducers present even more of a challenge because the that has been vapor deposited on the polymer surface at larger the panel, the more directional the dispersion an atomic level. A propri
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ELECTROSTATIC LOUDSPEAKER HISTORY The outcome would dictate the way that future generations In the late 1800s, any loudspeaker was considered exotic. would refer to loudspeakers as being either conventional, Today, most of us take the wonders of sound reproduction or exotic. for granted. Bell Laboratorys electrostat was something to behold. It was 1880 before Thomas Edison had invented the first This enormous bipolar speaker was as big as a door. phonograph. This was a horn-loaded diaphragm
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In 1947, Arthur Janszen, a young Naval engineer, took part to around 70 watts. As a result, many people continued in a research project for the Navy. The Navy was interested to use box speakers with cones. in developing a better instrument for testing microphone arrays. The test instrument needed an extremely accurate In the early 1960s Arthur Janszen joined forces with the speaker, but Janszen found that the cone speakers of the KLH loudspeaker company, and together they introduced period were
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS How do I clean my speakers? Is there likely to be any interaction between my speakers Just use a dust free cloth or a soft brush to remove the and the television in my Audio/Video system? dust from your speakers. We recommend a specialty cloth Actually, there is less interaction between a television (available through the XStatic shop at www.martinlogan.com) and an electrostatic speaker than between a television that cleans your speakers better than anything else we a
