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Small room electrostat/ planar speaker?

In about 30 days will be moving to a new home where its going to be hard to make my 1.7 maggies work in a spouse friendly way ( the only large room is the main living room). I've always gravitated to planars and electrostatics, box speakers that don't sound colored or slow usually cost more than my entire system. Where I'd like to end up is a system that's extremely resolving at low to moderate volume levels, my main dissatisfaction with my current Mg 1.7 speakers and Prima Luna amp is that it really doesn't come to life until the volume is moderate listening levels or higher.

I'm wondering if anyone has seen something that approaches the coherency and speed of the 1.7s that would work in an 11x12 listening room? I'd like to keep the cost limited to $4k if possible.
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clio09
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I'd be much more interested in these speakers if I could use my active crossover with 100 Hz high pass and low pass boards with them. I would send the high pass signal through my tube amp to the panel of the LFT-8b, then the low pass through my solid state amp to my own woofer array. Thus by-passing the LFT-8b bass driver.

On another note, I think the true test of any panel speaker is to be able to play extremely well at low volume.
clio09
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Well it is tempting but I do need a 100 Hz crossover point. The AirSpring woofer system I use was designed by Roger Modjeski and the crossover is the Beveridge RM-3 (also designed by Roger) with 100 Hz 4th order Link-Witz Reilly low pass filter (32 Hz EQ added by Roger) and the high pass filter also 4th order. The woofers resonate at just over 100 Hz, so I would not be able to crossover at 180 Hz. I use 4 boxes spread asymmetrically around the room. The system works great with Rogers ESLs or the 57s.
clio09
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If you haven't already tried them use 6550s in the 200. It was Brooks Berdan's favorite tube in both the RM-9 and RM-200. Roger kept a special stock of 6550s for Brooks, old Russian ones that if I recall did not have a getter. Alas, no more, but I have Roger's 200 over here and use Svetlana 6550s in it. Another 25 watts per channel.
clio09
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I believe the Russian 6550s were the original Svetlana brand that went out of production when the factory was destroyed. The RAM 6550s are Chinese. If they don't have them have Sheila call me and we'll get some to her. We have RAM, Svetlana and GE available.
clio09
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@ralph

Thanks I was wondering if I could just get the panels. I think single panels would be fine given I have Zeros.

clio09
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@ralph

Appreciate the advice and spoke to Bruce but he is no longer selling panels separately. Too bad, that would have been ideal for my project.
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