Fleetie wrote:
A) ESL-57s look OLD, DATED, UGLY, BROWN, and just YUCKY.

OSAF.


B) It seems "cool" to revere them. They're nearly 50 years old now.
They might (or might not; I've only heard them once IIRC, and that
was years ago at a Penta show, I think) sound ok in the mid or whatever,
but I am sure they're not as good as the uninitiated observer might be
led to think, given the amount of chin-stroking sage reverence that
they still seem to evoke.

Again OSAF, you say you have only heard them once, but feel confidant
that you know what they sound like.


C) I would personally never give them house space. I can see that
they might have value as antiques that in some cases still function,
but let's be honest, speaker technology has moved a LONG way in the
50 years since they were designed.


Mainly the 50 advance has been to overcome many of the problems
associated with putting moving coil speakers into a box. The ELS has
neither of these problems.

D) "Emperor's OLD clothes".


Whatever that means.


There! I've said it! Can I be burnt as a heretic now?


Well, you could point exactly the same finger at the valve amp you
have/had. the valves date from just about the same time (or a bit
earlier maybe)

Oh and I bet my Dynaudios'd kick ESL-57s' sorry asses into the grave where
they definitely belong. And go a fair bit louder.

Not sure going louder is in itself a issue. I would guess your
Dyneaudios go louder, higher and lower, but I will bet you the midrange
sucks on the dyneaudios compaired to the ELS's

--
Nick

"Life has surface noise" - John Peel 1939-2004