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ESS speakers "Translinear" Transstatic

These were speakers designed by California based company called ESS, that is, Electro Static Sound before they used the Heil Air Montion transformer. These models were current in 1970-1975. I am curious if any one still owns either of the above models, or has seem them listed on any of them listed in the used audio web sites. They were incredible speakers for their time,and sounded as good as many of so-called elctrostatics of today. They used good driver elements, for example, the KEF B-139 oval driver for the bass response.If anyone has knowledge of either of these above vintage speakers,please leave info on this Web page. Thank you!!
sunnyjim
koiman
51 posts
 
I have a pair of Ess speakers that I purchased back in 1972, I still play them everyday. I had to redo the rounds on the woofer but a side from that they sound as good as ever
jw94055
125 posts
 
ESS memories. In the 70's, I had a pair of the AMT 4's, the Heil unit was about 1/2 the size of the AMT 1's. I thought they were great, but I sold them and moved on to Kef 104ab's. About two years ago, I got a pair of the AMT monitors(the foam surrounds were all shot). I always felt it didn't make sense to pair the heil with a 12" driver so I paired the 6" heil with a 6" Peerless mid/bass in a new cabinet (sized for the proper Q). I also have a subwoofer using a pair of the Kef B139's crossed over at 100hz. The sound still stuns me.
erasmusj
14 posts
 
I purchased my ESS AMT Monitors in 1982. I used them in a large room with thick carpeting, absorbent ceiling panels and curtains on three side from ceiling to floor. I listened to them with a powerful SAE amplifier usually running pretty much flat out. There were no room reflections or standing waves. The sound was extraordinary in that the the ambience in the recording (if any) was faithfully reproduced. For twenty years I never heard anything to beat this system. When I played "The living Daylights" LP then my *neighbours* spoke of the realism of the train (Note brick houses 65m apart).

The woofers have had surrounds replaced twice and the diaphrams in the EMT units have been replaced once. Another set of replacement surrounds and diaphrams are on order.

They are now being used as rear speakers with two Tannoy D900 speakers in front and Musical Fidelity amplification. People still jump to answer the phone when a DVD soundtrack rings in the background.

I have just taken delivery of a stack of equipment to biamp the Tannoys, and if that works well then I might do the ESS Monitors as well. This will allow me to streighten out the response curve a bit and match the back and front speakers better.
ds011
2 posts
 
I have pair of ESS speakers Monitor Series 4 in very good condition.What do you guys think how much should I sell them for??
Thanks
cathyleray20e0
1 posts
 
i have heard kithara loudspeakers they sounds good
i want to make a clone
is there somebody who know what woofer model they use?
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