The panels on ML speakers are hard to damage to the point of failure, They do not suffer from arcing like Quads do, for example. I know of only one instance where a friend’s ML panel failed. The owner stored the speakers in a garage for several years in a high humidity climate. The wire that charges the panel corroded at the point where the wire attaches to the panel.
Electrostatic Speakers Vs. Horn/component Tweeter
I’m curious… when a horn or tweeter goes bad, it’s clearly obvious. The driver is shot and the audio sounds clipped and distorted. Electrostatic however, have massive surface areas and use static electricity to vibrate the material…. So when an electrostatic speaker goes bad, what actually happens to cause it to go bad, and does it go bad like a tweeter, where it goes from sounding fine to sounding like crap in a split second? Or will an electrostatic speaker slowly decay over time, so you don’t notice it initially, and then one day, it just doesn’t sound as good as you remember it sounding? If an electrostatic speaker goes bad, what causes it? Is it torn material? Is it something where you can replace a single small part? Or do you typically have to replace the entire panel?
I’ve come across plenty of blown regular speakers in my life, but never a blown (if that’s even possible) electrostatic speaker.
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