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Hi, I don’t think that this would work. Apart from anything else there is a strip of foil that supplies the HV to the Mylar /conductive coating and you can’t see it as it’s under one side of the stator. That would also need to be coated. Also you have to make sure that no conductive fluid is...

Hi, it could also be that the pops you hear are arcing where the insulation isn’t as good as it should be within the panel. I had a panel doing exactly the same and when I took it apart there was a small piece of Mylar that was actually melted from the arcing. As a temporary ‘fix’ I cut around...

Hi Rob, Sorry, one more thing if you are going to do this, make sure that the resistor you get is 1% tolerance as you want to be as accurate as you can. Kind regards Steve

Hi Rob, Get yourself a 1 gigaohm resistor and you can measure through that with a normal meter. Undo the connections from the main board to the HV step up transformer. Put the resistor in Series with one side of the HV output and the positive side of the meter, then connect the other side of...

Hi, If the HV is around 2100 - 2200v then I would have thought that this was in spec on your speakers. ML told me that it it would take a difference of a few hundred volts to appreciably alter the balance. I would have thought it unlkely that both your speakers were suffering from a large drop...

Hi, As far as I know ER Audio won't have suitable spar material for the ML's. If your spars are black and you wish to use the same material then you want 3M 4990 VHB doube sided tape (1.1mm thick) 6mm wide for the rear spars and 3M 4929 VHB double sided tape (0.6mm thick) for the front ones. I...

Hi, Yeah I’ve used ER Audio for a couple of years, since my SL3 panels failed. They are a great company, their products are good and they are extremely knowledgable and helpful. @surfatwork. Taking the panels apart is not easy. As previously said they are very well glued together with 3M...

Hi, I have SL3’s so not sure how easy this is with the ESL’s but I would swap the panels over between speakers. If the problem moves then it’s the panel, if it doesn’t it’s in the speaker itself which was the initial problem I had. Just in case it’s of use the problem turned out to be one of...

Hi, I have just got hold of a pair of SL3’s which are in great condition except that four of the binding pots are broken. The plastic parts that tighten the cable onto the post are either missing or cracked. I checked with ML support and they are no longer made so I wondered if anyone had...

Hi everyone, This Is Steve from the UK, just joined as I have finally got a pair of SL3’s. Always liked electrostatic speakers and have been searching for a while. This site is a great source of information and am looking forward to contributing