Final-Audio New Series electrostatics

More on the MBL.  Unobtanium is correct.  The only way to have the Radialstrahler cover most of the audio is their top model.  All their other models introduce traditional cone drivers up into the lower midrange.  It does work but makes them less interesting to me.  Still, they rule the cool mountain.  And they do sound fantastic!  

Yes mark200mph, love my pair of ESS Large Heil drivers.  Extremely detailed and airy.  I perceive that they are very low in harmonic distortion.  Much like the Purifi drivers that sound thin at first until your brain realizes that it is just how clean the driver is compared to others.   Same as electrostatics.

I believe I got the second pair of M35s sold in the US.  They have replaced the Magnepan 20.7s I was using previously.  Sonically these are great sounding speakers with some limitations.  I have had trouble with arcing in the panels playing classical music at very loud levels.  It is unclear if that is problem specific to my pair or a general reason for concern.  Oddly, it has only occurred with symphonic classical music.  I have also run into buzzing on a couple of tracks, typically with lower frequency stringed instruments, i.e. cello or bass guitar.  It seems likely that the panel is vibrating in the frame but it is possible there is some sort of resonance in the panel.  Again, I have no idea if that is limited to the first models that were manufactured or occurs more widely.  So far there have only been four tracks over many hundreds of hours of listening that have been an issue but ... In my conversations with Ravi he has promised that those problems with my speakers will be addressed sometime in the future so I am not overly concerned and the speakers really do sound fantastic.

Not only is that brand name a little confusing given the iconic Japanese brand (mostly headphones?)... why would one go all this random stuff if one is going electrostatic? Why not Maggies or Martin Logan?

Just a to clarify a point.  Magnepan does not and never has manufactured an electrostatic speaker.  Magnepan is a magneto-static design more like a traditional cone or dome driver.  Eminent Technology is magneto-static.   Both sound. fundamentally different that an electrostatic.  I own and enjoy both magneto-static and electrostatic designs.   Each involves pros and cons.  

Full disclosure, I own the first Final M35 imported into the US as a retail sale.  The M35 has a somewhat different design than the remainder of the M series.   The design differences were required to extend the low frequency.  Like others, my original order was for the M15.  After research and conversations with the importer, I changed it to the M35.  I have no regrets.