Horns
Speed kills....
Which is why I love 'stats so much. For myself, dynamics and leading edge transients are essential. Are there any alternatives in terms of dynamic "boxey" type (verity?) speakers that I should listen to? My present speakers are hales t8's (hales has been out of business a long time ago) and they are about as far away from that ideal as you can get. I want to go in a different direction for my FINAL set of speakers.
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Music Reference is offering a direct-drive ESL for $12k. That buys you left and right panels, each of which is powered by it's own direct-drive tube amp (no output transformer on the amp, no input transformer on the panels!), plus a pair of 8" dynamic woofers for 100Hz down. No power amp(s) needed, nor speaker cables. |
A lot of the aparent speed and detail of electrostats is in the lack of dispersion, but the truth is they can store quite a lot of energy which in any other speaker we’d blame for muddy sounding results. Take a look at figure 6 here: https://www.stereophile.com/content/martinlogan-masterpiece-renaissance-esl-15a-loudspeaker-measurem... What electrostatics do spectacularly very well is ignore a lot of the room acoustics. It's really hard to achieve the same level of clarity at the listening room with point source type speakers. And please don’t come after me, I like ESL speakers. I just want to broaden the understanding of what it is we like about them. |
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