Is Martin Logan goin to Big Box stores?

There are also now being sold in Best Buy stores that have a Magnolia home theater section. Ultimate Audio, which is part of the Tweeter group is also retailing M/L these days.
Most of what they stock is the aimed at the HT marketing. Smaller M/L and on-wall models.

The new cheap line of ML products is well represented in Tweeter and Magnolia. The line sucks but has the ML logo and fits nicely on the wall. On a store-by-store basis some are able to carry the higher end products. While some individual stores do have staf with teh appropriate background to sell the higher end line most do not. These stores often end up selling the Aeon or Ascent along with a Denon receiver (which promptly blows up or shuts down).

Other manufacturers have in the past, and are doing the same now. Coast on name recognition into mediocrity. Strike while the iron is hot and cash in on your success now audio manufacturers. Quality what?

Very sad. I cant blame them though money talks.

Why is it sad that Best Buy might actually sell some decent equipment? :)

That would be the kiss of death. Have you seen what the merger with Chrysler did to Mercedes? Have you seen the two horrible new models: one looks like a van, the other like a Mazda 3? I thought people realized that cheapening the brand is what, in great part, caused the demise of Packard.