In article ,
Phil Allison wrote:
** Way more then they are sensibly worth, cos they will likely not
survive the trip to a new owner's premises - unless it is within
carrying range.

No such issues with the old ESL57s.

And I have owned both.

Coincidently I recently listened to a pair of ESL57s (for the first
ime in many years) and pondered if there had been any real improvement
in speaker design in 50 years. ;-)

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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article ,
Phil Allison wrote:
** Way more then they are sensibly worth, cos they will likely not
survive the trip to a new owner's premises - unless it is within
carrying range.

No such issues with the old ESL57s.

And I have owned both.

Coincidently I recently listened to a pair of ESL57s (for the first
ime in many years) and pondered if there had been any real improvement
in speaker design in 50 years. ;-)


Source no doubt analogue tape and valve amplification;?...
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Tony Sayer

In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
Coincidently I recently listened to a pair of ESL57s (for the first
ime in many years) and pondered if there had been any real improvement
in speaker design in 50 years. ;-)


Source no doubt analogue tape and valve amplification;?...

No. CD. Amplification was a Quad 303.

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On 31/07/2011 14:21, Dave (dopey ********) Plowman (News) wrote:
In ,
Phil wrote:
** Way more then they are sensibly worth, cos they will likely not
survive the trip to a new owner's premises - unless it is within
carrying range.

No such issues with the old ESL57s.

And I have owned both.

Coincidently I recently listened to a pair of ESL57s

No you didn't, you made that up.


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