On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:32:47 GMT, alex wrote:

The Devil wrote:

: If the asking price of Quads is your main concern and you are able to work
: around the space requirements, look into second-hand 63s.

Price for 988 but space as well. Otherwise I could afford a used
ESL-63. The Quads are too wide for my room. A narrower speaker (could
be taller) is what I need.

Not to rain on your parade, but basically, forget it. The
characteristic sound of Quads and other large planars can *only* be
obtained by the use of a large planar dipole in a room large enough to
give the speaker lots of 'breathing room'. If your room size is such
that you don't have the space for Quads, then you don't have the space
to place *any* speaker far enough from the walls to avoid problems
with early reflections. There is one rather unusual solution, but it
*only* works with planar dipoles that have the tweeter down one edge,
such as Magneplanars or the old Apogees. See my page at
http://www.lurcher.org/ukra/ for how this is done.

OTOH, you can certainly obtain good, but different, sound in a small
room if you choose speakers that were *designed* to work close to a
wall, such as the classic Naim SBL.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering