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Old December 31st 04, 08:30 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Rob
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Default Quad Electrostatics

Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , tony sayer

wrote:



Perhaps I should be lucky then, the missus adores the Quads and quite
surprisingly.. the sound of they)



I am similarly fortunate as my wife prefers the appearance of ESL's to
conventional speakers - as well as liking the music. :-)

Slainte,

Jim


Marvellous! I've never managed to achieve that marriage :-)

*If* I was to consider ESLs could any of you sum up, in a couple of
lines, the sort of amplification and room sizes necessary to help them
(say 63s) work properly?

I've only ever heard Quad electrostatics twice - once in a hifi 'shop'
(the old Laskey's in Birmingham, a huge room), and once at someone's
home. In the shop the music sounded superb, as good as I've heard, but
at this bloke's house I found it very 'thin' - inoffensive but lacking
detail and weight at frequency extremes. The room was probably 25'x15',
and we were about 15' from the speakers. I didn't recognise any of the
kit, but he was very rich - I'd guess it was 'decent'.

TIA

Rob