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Old July 29th 11, 08:42 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Chris Isbell[_2_]
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Default Quad ESL2805 [was: And so...]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:53:39 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

Maybe we should do some 'blogging' more about audio. So if anyone is
interested, I've spent the morning saying a fond farewell to my
c25-year-old ESL63s and installing a new pair of 2805s as their
replacements. My main initial impressions a


Jim,

I hope that you have better luck than me! I am currently on my fourth set
of 2805s. All of them have developed internal arcing - one of the latest
pair started doing this as soon as they were installed.

Regrettably, it looks very likely that I will be going back to my forty-
year old 57s. This is a great pity because in all other respects the
2805s sound wonderful.


Chris.