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KU graduates tune speakers into hi-fi profits
For two University of Kansas graduates, what started in 1980 as a basement experiment in Lawrence has become a $3.5 million-a-year business in 1992.
By Juan P. Turbay
Special to the Kansan
Out of a mutual interest, Gayle Sanders, with a 1970 degree in advertising, and Ronald Sutherland, with a 1979 master's degree in electrical engineering, built a loudspeaker system made of such materials as perforated aluminum and strips of plastic and graphite.
Sanders said both men were so excited at the sound issuing from the speaker they had constructed that they decided to turn up the volume — only to see it blow up and fill the room with smoke.
After a successful introduction of their improved product at a trade show a year later, Martin-Logan Ltd., 2001 Delaware St., was born.
Today, a pair of Martin-Logan loudspeakers sells from between $2,600 and $60,000.
The concept and look of the speakers is highly unorthodox. As opposed to traditional electromagnetic cone loudspeakers, Martin-Logan uses the electrostatic concept, in which sound is produced by charged electrons of differing polarity, which attract and repel each other on a diaphragm.
In 1988, the company made Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing private enterprises. A 1991 Audio Magazine article described one of Martin-Logan's models as, "Striking in appearance and size, and outrageously expensive. It is one of the best-sounding speakers made."
Although the electrostatic principle dates to the 1920s, Martin-Logan developed and patented a panel curved at a 30-degree angle that provided a more even diffusion of sound than was possible in earlier models.
John Kiefer, of Kieff's Audio-Video, 2429 Iowa St., said, "In its price range, it is one of the better-selling speakers that we have. They are probably one of the top three in the audio industry in the price class."
In 1984, Sutherland sold his share of the company to start another local audio company, Sutherland Engineering, 619 E. Eighth St., which makes top-of-the-line amplifiers that sell for about $2,500 each, Sanders said.
Except for the base and frame, Martin-Logan loudspeakers are semi-transparent. The firm's largest model, The Statement, is 8 feet, 4 inches tall, 4 feet, 9 inches in width and 2 feet, 5 inches in diameter.
Karen Thompson-Sanders, Gayle Sanders' wife and the company's secretary- treasurer, said the company produced between 30 and 40 pairs of loudspeakers a week and that it had about 25 employees.
"Though we don't sell directly, internationally, we distribute to all of Europe," she said. "What we do is to design, assemble and market our products. Manufacturing is done somewhere else."
She said that in October the company was planning to introduce a new model called the Aerius. These speakers will be smaller than previous Martin-Logan models and will sell for about $2,000 a pair, the lowest-priced model in the company's product line. She also said that the company was hoping to increase production to 60 pairs of speakers a week.
Gayle Sanders said his company targeted the high-end audio market.
"Only the aficionados, the real hobbyists, know about us," he said. "Locally, it doesn't pay for us to be visible."
Derek Nolen / KANSAN
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Concentrating on the music to a routine, Amy Trainer, Derby freshman, tries to keep up with the dance steps she is being taught. Trainer and approximately 75 other girls showed up yesterday evening in Anshutz Sports Pavilion for the first day of tryouts for the Crimson Girls. Over the next two days, the number of girls will be cut to the final four that will make the team. The new team members will have to learn six fight songs and eight to 10 dance routines. The cheerleading team will hold tryouts next week.
Man awaits sentencing in 1990 hit-and-run death
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Tiffany Lasha Hurt
Marvin Schaal,19, was also charged with vehicular homicide in connection with the case, but that charge ended with a hung jury and resulted in a mistrial.
Rick Trapp, assistant district attorney, said the new trial date for the vehicular homicide charge
A Nov. 8 sentencing date has been set for a Lawrence man found guilty in May of leaving the scene of an injury accident that led to the 1990 death of 19-year-old Christopher Bread, an American-Indian Lawrence resident.
American-Indian death in Lawrence in a one-year period ending in March 1900.
The case stirred the Lawrence American-Indian community because Bread's was the fourth
Bread was found March 2, 1980, in a ditch one and one-half miles east of Lawrence. Police believe he was struck by a vehicle.
Schaal was arrested exactly two years after Bread's death. It was the first arrest made in connection with any of the four deaths.
John Sandoval, 19, who was found April 1989, drowned in the Kansas River.
Cecil Dawes Jr., 21, who was found October 1989, also drowned in the river.
■ Harry Oliver, 72, was killed December 1989 in a hit-and-run accident ...
Carl Fleming, Bread's attorney, could not be reached for comment.
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