ESS speakers "Translinear" Transstatic

Just found this thread, picked up a pair of m102's (1980 I believe)recently and am quite impressed with them. They are all original,only needed a good cleaning and a little touch up on some edges. Was able to get original grill cloth from
ESS. They are amaizing and play well on all music.

just bought me a used AMT 1D that was built after 2001 so it's the newer line but the cabinets are the same design. I will improve it some more with dakiom feedback stabilizers and the fact I have many sound processors like dbx, bbe, behringer, it will definitely have very little limitations cause I can alter the sound in which so many seem to have their limitations. I also acquired an AMT 10B, and with my ohm walsh 300 mk 2 rebuilt by ohm, at least i can switch. I also have eminent tech lft 8a's and a maggie 2.5r's with new ribbons, I have the best of both worlds and if i ever find space, i can always pull out my DINOSAUR, an ACOUSTAT SPECTRA 33 the electrostat the size of a room!

i could never tolerate the original ESS AMT1 in the top where it was so rough as to be intolerable. the same effect was present in early shibata equipped cartridges and the original threshold 400 amp. i can only imagine the high frequency cacophony if all three of those components had been used together.

i never got to hone in on the lows of the towers like transtatics with their transmission line loading in the lows. i will guess they werent quite as good as the IMF and Fried embodiment of that approach. i think mike wright of the UK did that design work on the IMFs and later TDL.

there are numerous speakers out there now with heil drivers including one with a very large amt (Atma Audio) marketed by Paul Squillo Music Systems.

i heard a LARGE version of this speaker at the moorpark theater while attending a performance of dan hicks and it didnt exhibit the roughness i referred to that i heard in the AMT1s.
perhaps this technology has evolved to a more usable state.

The ESS AMT was my first intro into high end in the mid '70s. A friends attic with a Marantz integrated amp and turntable and the spekers. It was the hang-out for our gang in while in college. It was a great way to spend the cold Iowa winters. Amazing sound for its day and still stands on its own. If anyone is interested in an upgrade - we now offer a killer one. Check out our info on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151132188420489&set=a.10151126147345489.460048.119021235488&type=1&theater.

I have the only 2 sets of these ESS speakers that I've ever seen like this, there are 4 satellite speaker small bookshelf looking and 1 large bass sub and a satellite power matrix? that says Electrostatic sound systems ... I bought them from the original owner in 1978 and he bought them in 1973 ... While I'm sure there are tons of new stuff to surpass them the sound is really remarkable just a pleasure to listen to ... Anyone else have any experience with these?