DIY electrostatics--as good as factory?

We all know that we can easily build cone speakers better than any factory so why not electrostatics? I'm just starting on my quest to do so now. A company called david Lucas has parts, kits and plans for them. They are at 924 Hulton St, Oakmont, PA 15139 412 882-1967. Also Roger Sanders at 505 759-3822. Sonic Frontiers DIY parts division has books on the subject www.sonicfrontiers.com. I'm too busy now messing with low-powered tube amps 2A3s and high-efficency full range speakers for now but am dying to try my own electrostatics. Speaker Bulider magazine 1997 issue four has an article on how to build one from scratch using hardware store materials. Only the film and step up transformer were specialy purchaced. I can photocopy this and send it to you. It looks like the cheapest way to build one. The frequency response looks as good as one I saw for a Martin Logan! I hope this helps. Regards, Bill

David Lucas has a website at www.davidlucas.com. His stuff seems very reasonably priced, but I haven't heard anything about them. I would be very interested in your results if you do decide to purchase.

Hi there, you might want to take a look at the following DIY-ESL pages which will give you plenty of info and instructions. www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/2239/9041IMAI.htm www.glmt.com/esl/ www2.crosswinds.net/~esl/

I just built a pair of Tl/Electrostatics using panels supplied by the ESL Information Exchange: http://www.jps.com/eslinfo Barry Waldron bends over backwards to help from design to completion. They blow away the ML SL-1 at a fraction of the cost (and much more visually impressive. To see pictures of the completed project I've put some pics on http://pluto.njcc.com/~genashor/Speaker BTW, David Lucas is NOTORIOUS for bad quality and bad service. His advertisements in Speaker Builder are nothing short of Snake Oil tactics, IMHO.

I'm interested in building my own electrostatics. I tried to access the web sites suggested by Ggendel@sarnoff.com and couldn't get in. Any other sites out there that have info on DIY ES speakers? Thanks.