The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL

@richardbrand What is a pseudo line source? Do you have stadium concerts down under? If you go to one you can hear midrange/bass line sources. The sound is usually awful. I do not bother any more. 

The problem with most "line source" speakers is that the line source behavior is limited to certain frequencies depending on the design of the speaker. Very few people have a line source system capable of maintaining that behavior below 200 Hz. This is the big reason these speakers tend to lack really punching bass. Point source speakers lose acoustic power by the cube of the distance away from the speaker, but line sources only at the square of the distance. As you move away from the speaker bass frequencies fall off much faster leaving an anemic sound. Full range line source systems have advantages. The sound stage you get is right up from within the first 10 rows. Point source systems are back in the 25th row. Bass and percussion are much more life like in terms of power and dynamics. The problem for most people is the size of the system, it owns the room.

You do not need a distributor. Sound Labs will ship anywhere in the world that allows it. God knows what the duties are like down there. The Aussies make some great equipment. My DEQX preamp is Australian. There are many speaker manufacturers. Nobody makes ESLs? 

I have zapped myself on numerous occasions usually from forgetting to ground out the diaphragm before working on the speaker. That is a bigger zap than what you get from the bias supply directly. It is not capable of much current. The stators are referenced to ground, they discharge immediately when the music stops. 

@lewm Vermont also has great riding, but New Hampshire rules with the Harley crowd because you do not have to wear a helmet here. They think that putting along at 30 MPH means you can't get your head squished by a run away truck or a WOMAN in an SUV on her f-ing cell phone. I emphasized the female gender to make sure everyone knew I was talking about an XX, not an XY masquerading as an XX.  This is particularly true of XXs driving Jeeps. My helmet is fluorescent yellow and it scares the h-ll out of many drivers. They move over even if they are not in my lane, Brilliant. We now have airbag vests. When the vest detects an unusual acceleration in the wrong direction it fires off the airbags and you go bouncing down the road or off other vehicles until the bags deflate. I don't use them too uncomfortable. I would use them for racing, but I do not do that any more in the strictest sense. 

I do own a Ducati, but in this case I was referring to my Triumph Thruxton RS. There are times when the British hit the nail squarely on the head like the Jag XKE and the Thruxton RS. The Ducati is raucous and in your face, but the Thruxton is just a beautiful thing, visually and mechanically. 

@mijostyn 

I do know and understand that stuff, pretty much like the back of my hand.  Absolutely right, subwoofers should be put to work on long wavelengths, which often will be longer than the listening room.  They will excite room resonances and one benefit of having multiple subs is that they average out these resonances a bit.

Now are you saying that the longest distance between any two of your subs is four feet?  I am particularly familiar with the Duntech Sovereign where the blurb says it is "acknowledged by experts as the finest speaker in the world, certainly the most accurate".  Each speaker has seven drivers in a floor to ceiling D'Appolito arrangement, which puts 12" bass drivers near the floor and ceiling.  Base is quoted as down to 27-Hz within 2-dB.  A huge amount of effort was put into time aligning the seven drivers so if you sat at the right ear height, phase differences were less than 25 degrees.

Because time alignment is so important, vertical listening position was crucial.  Slowly lower yourself and suddenly a huge image came into focus.  A few inches more and it was gone.  That was in a very large demonstration room where wall reflections mattered less than usual.  I've mentioned before that the reference used when designing these speakers was the Quad ESL-63.

Yep, the wavelengths tweeters should handle make it unwise to use more than one (why does Infinity spring to mind here?).  Tweeters can be made coincident (concentric) with mid-range drivers, as was done by Tannoy and is now brilliantly executed by KEF.  I have not heard the Tannoy re-incarnation by Fyne.

I made reference to the HD-3P Tweeter when being in discussion about the ESL 57, and my intention to attempt to tidy up one of it's obvious shortcomings with the Tweeter. Under the guise of "Hearing is Believing", I made more known about my experiences with Speakers using this Tweeter. 

Referencing the Driver was not a prompt to encourage the use of it, even though that is a consideration I do recommend.

To see that the Tweeters Data is now sought out and added as a further information was not expected to be seen within this Thread. Maybe in a Thread dedicated to the Tweeter as can be discovered on other forums. 

To the on-looker who has an interest in Self Produced Speakers, the added info might be enough to convince the Tweeter is worth a further investigation and worthy of such  contemplation. 

@mijostyn "What is a pseudo line source?"

A true line source speaker does not exist, any more than a true point source speaker can actually exist.  If they could, the energy they emit would have to be crammed into an infinitely small volume, a singularity.  Singularities are hated in physics theory.  If you can get an ounce or two of matter and cram it into a very small volume, you pretty much have the preconditions for the creation of another big-bang and a new universe.

Ribbon speakers probably come closest to a line source, but big electrostatic panels have to use geometry and / or smarts to give the illusion they behave like a point, or a line, somewhere outside the plane of the panel.

Countries with small populations like Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, Slovenia can all make really good equipment.  Australia even invented WiFi.  But there is little government support or venture capital for start-ups.  The volumes are low, so prices have to be high.

The flip side is that there are very few import duties anymore.  The car industry is wide open to imports.  Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Toyota have all stopped local manufacture quite recently.  Chinese cars will dominate very soon!

In general I can import stuff and save about 25% compared with buying the same item locally, after allowing for transport costs.