Interesting reading for ESL owners

Sfrounds. Agree with you on most points, except that in my system there is absolutely no problem in hearing the difference between high end interconnects. I can put Audioquest, Cardas and Purist in my system between the turntable and phono stage, or between the phono stage and preamp and hear distinct differences.

That being said, an engineer that claims there is no difference in interconnects, leads me to believe he has not pushed the performance of the system he designs with. I would hope that every high end manufacturer would have a system at least as good as the posters at Audiogon.

As far as your comments about the information being useful as applied to electrostatics, I agree. There are different requirements for electrostatic speakers, and the choices in interconnect, speaker wire, and the power cable to the speakers all matter a great deal.

Thanks for sharing the site address, I will look for these people at the next CES, it will be interesting to see how their speakers perform.

I suggest that if you connect two interconnects at the same time to the CD output, it should not be a surprise if they sound similar when switching between them at the preamp. You just need to think about the circuit you have created. Secondly, short term switching has never convinced me of anything. I am with Albert.

Innersound's thoughts on speaker cable are indeed interesting, but like Albert, I reckon the credibility has been dented.

Ultimately, the proof is in the product and the Innersound speaker is an excellent product. The fact that their thoughts on cabling may be outside of the standard audiophile orthodoxy does not detract from the magnitude of their success in speaker production. As with nearly all manufacturers of high quality audio equipment, they have well defined recommendations on how to maximize the performance of their products. As audiophiles we are under no obligation to follow the manufacturers guidelines.

If you get a chance, I strongly recommend you give the Innersound ESL a listen.

Albert,
I write/talk with Roger fairly often, we own a pair of EROS and a pair of ISIS and have a new center channel for the HT on the way.
He is a speaker genius, in my opinion and I have learned a lot about the design of his speakers, especially about transmission lines.
I found out in one of the first conversations with him, that he is of the EE "camp" that cables are cables.
I personally don't hold that belief, but I know him to be really serious about great sound.
So....I am a little dumbfounded by it. I am tempted to buy a set of cables for our surround speakers in the HT and compare them to the Goertz MI2's we are using now and really like.
Cheers,

...and hey, Albert, I seem to remember from an older post that your system is worth more than California's energy debt!
I would hope that you could tell significant differences by say....even dusting! :-)
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