Recent content by Larry

Tony, if the Electromotion ESL fits your needs and your budget, just set them up properly in your room, relax and enjoy the music. I've lived with electrostatic speakers for over forty years and am very happy with my EM-ESLs. Whatever you do, don't develop a case of audio nervosa. Been there...

Most of what you say is good and true. But it is wise to avoid overstatement. As you also said, "You know that you have 2 speakers. I can count them. You can count them." If you see that I have three speakers and you have two, then you see that I have one more speaker than you do. Does this not...

Bob, the rolloff from 250 hz down looks very much like the shape of the high-pass filter that Apple programmed into the iPhone before iOS6. With iOS6, that filter was removed and the frequency response of the iPhone became quite flat.

I well remember the Blizzard of '66. Very little in the city moved except for people and sleds. It brought out a striking display of camaraderie and mutual helpfulness. Every winter I ask myself, "Why do I live here?" But every summer I ask myself, "Why would I want to live anywhere else?"...

Buy only art that pleases you. Go to museums and gallery shows to learn and refine your taste. Pay attention to the work of local artists. Many of them are very good and their work can be had at a reasonable price. The big-time art market is highly manipulated and subject to wild fluctuations...

Stoney, there is no genuine pet issue. I've had both cats and electrostatic speakers of one sort or another for forty years. The only pet problem I had was with a male cat who sprayed my woofers. ESL panels do deteriorate with time, though. My last Aerius panels were good for about a dozen years...

RUR = Rossum's Universal Robots, the title of a play by Karel Capek. It can't be obscure, because I know it.

Which ML speaker are you measuring here?

I agree with the other posters. And I doubt that a more powerful amp will do much for you at this stage. The electromotion ESLs are pretty efficient. Just like you I sit about 12 feet from my electromotions and I find that a good 100 wpc amp drives them very comfortably. You have excellent...

Go for a good-quality used power amp. My electromotion els run very happily on a Classe CA 100 amp that I bought second-hand several years ago.

We're here to hear.

Gordon, you might want to check out the TIAA-CREF family of investments: https://www.tiaa-cref.org/public/index.html Their fees are low and they have a long and strong track record. I have been retired for 15 years and my investments with them weathered the recession very nicely. Larry

My Sunday afternoon music was the Mahler Symphony #2 (Resurrection) performed by Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony, soloist Kathleen Battle, on a Telarc disk. This performance is, for me at least, an intense emotional experience. It is guaranteed to give your playback system a thorough...

Gee, you really are a Conservative!

Indeed! So it seems that we philosophers have found analogue and tubes to be too much trouble, and have abandoned audiophilia. However, there are two small problems: (1) philosophers never agree on anything, and (2) we read this website every day. Hmmmm....