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Being originally from Toronto, I usually make my way back here at least a couple of times a year to visit family and friends.

Landscape orientation indoor photograph of an audio company's factory with numerous various random distinct product model packages, a United States of America flag, a Paradigm/Anthem banner flag, and a Canada flag hanging overhead above the floor

And whenever I’m in town, I like to make a point of visiting Paradigm/MartinLogan’s Mississauga facility to see what’s going on.

Portrait orientation indoor photograph of an audio company's factory with numerous various random distinct product model packages, a United States of America flag, a MartinLogan banner flag, and a Canada flag hanging overhead above the floor

Paradigm, and its sister brands, Anthem, and MartinLogan, all have well-established histories and loyal followings. When it comes to marketing, they tend not to be showy or overly boastful, nor are they in the habit of pushing the latest shiny new object every year simply because they can. These are serious, well-regarded brands that customers know they can rely on for a consistent and quality experience. People who know, trust them.

Landscape orientation indoor photograph of an audio company's factory with several identical product model speakers on display, a male employee looking downward at a wooden table surface and other various random distinct product model packages surrounded nearby him

On this visit, Taps (who literally lives in the neighborhood) and I were going to be focusing on the MartinLogan side of things. We would get an exclusive look at how one of their electrostatic speakers gets manufactured, pretty much from start to finish.

During this visit, I also had a chance to sit down with MartinLogan Product Manager, Andrew Lindsey. Andrew and I discussed the company’s history, its philosophy when it comes to audio, and what it’s been up to lately.

We hope you enjoy this peek at what goes on at Paradigm/MartinLogan. Thanks for reading and watching!

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A native of Toronto Canada, Carlo's interest in audio began at a young age when, unbeknownst to his mother, he started taking apart her numerous transistor radios to see how they worked. This desire for “knowledge through deconstruction” continued through to the family’s 8-track tape player, turntable, headphones, and speakers. Carlo subsequently spent a lot of time in his room. Toronto was a fertile ground for Hi-Fi in the 1970s and 80s and Carlo spent much of his wayward youth hanging out in downtown Toronto stereo shops, listening to all manner of gear and picking the brains of the various store owners. Through that formative experience, Carlo developed an appreciation for good music and good sound reproduction. Also, as a budding graphic artist, the aesthetic aspects of a given piece of gear became increasingly of interest to his eyes. It was at about that time as well that Carlo began purchasing “Audio Magazine” on a regular basis and came to appreciate, in particular, the writing and reviewing of the late Leonard Feldman. Later on, he was also influenced by the writing and observations of the staff at Sound and Vision Canada, helmed at the time by Alan Loft. Carlo graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in Classical Animation and was subsequently employed by Walt Disney Consumer Products for 10 years as a Character Artist and Art Director. Having become disenchanted with Los Angeles, he then decided to strike out on his own. Carlo started his own company and has been freelancing artwork, from his home studio, primarily for the toy and publishing industries since 2001. In 2013, on a bit of a lark, Carlo answered a “Call for Writers” ad from an AV website that he had been regularly reading for about 5 years called Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. He had come to appreciate the website’s combination of subjective impressions along with the objective bench-testing available in several of the reviews. The “B-Team” must have been working that day because by some miracle he was hired as a writer and his first review for the site was published early in 2014. Carlo has been continually writing, editing, traveling, listening, and learning on the company’s behalf ever since. Carlo currently lives in Granville, Ohio with his wife, two sons, and a very old, but chill dachshund.

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