Essence Electrostatic Speakers...A Bold Statement

"Diminishing Returns" starts kicking in very quickly in this hobby !... BUT..

"Audiophiles" want to keep this "{TOP SECRET}" !!! BUT "Music Lovers" already knew how quickly those "Diminishing Returns"start kicking in !!.. ... ....

Johnnyb53: Box speakers SOUND BOXY and those crossover caps just colors the sound..."A LOT"!.. {"The BEST Crossover caps is NO Crossover CAPS"}..SAD, BUT TRUE!!

Douglas Schroeder: What's that saying...{"Never JUDGE a BOOK by it's COVER"}

Zd542: Nothing can be done with these problems you made your bed now you have to lie in it!

The "ROOM" rules! and box speakers sound boxy and close-in no matter what you do!!! "Electrostatic speakers get "out-of-the-way" from the "ROOM" more so than any other type of speakers period"! Think.. headphones without the ROOM!

We can go forward or backward!

We can go..FORWARD or BACKWARDS! ???..

They just came out with a all new Electrostatic speaker that will go down to 20 Hz! for $2K!

http://www.essenceelectrostatic.com/product/model-1200/

Here's more info on these all new Audiostatic Electrostatic speakers

http://www.audiostatic.com

Johnnyb53, the last time I checked...{"we all hear things very differently"} SO what I think sounds amazing, somebody else will always think it sounds very bad! That's what makes this hobby ...SO GREAT!!

I do believe the $$$$ Yamaha Soavo NS-F901's pushed the TAD R-1's out of the market!!...Yamaha can make "Reference products".. when they want to!!

They will not have these new Audiostatic speakers in stock until December 2015 and they say these new Electrostats are a major breakthrough that do not need any ac power!

http://www.essenceelectrostatic.com/new-audiostatic-electrostats-need-no-ac-power/

Some members from Space Coast Audio Society in Central Florida is going to go Demo these all new Audiostatic speakers when Essence gets a pair in to demo!.. I found out about this on another forum. The Space Coast Audio Society E-Mail is vgl@cfl.rr.com and their phone number is 386-423-4650

So.. "it's all going to come out in the wash.. SOON"!!...

Ben Peters newest design is based off of this former Audiostatic ES-500...more info about this in the thread below.

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&1374183292

Maybe Ben Peters is bringing back a improved version of his Threshold ES-500 Electrostatic speakers...

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_5_2/thresholdes500.html

Dracule1, I think we will have to wait and see when someone gets some of these new Audiostatic speakers and do some tests on them to see if they can "REALLY DO" 20 HZ +- 3. I don't think it can be done with a Electrostatic Speaker... and will never believe it until I see tests showing it!..

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