Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr

Its been a while now but I remmeber an hifi pal of mine had a set of 4 panel Magneplanars set up in his listening room, man that sound was just freaking delicious and one of the best I can remmeber.

After posting the following, I noticed the thread was 2.5 years old! I assume the OP is set by now. I'll leave my post here, in case it's of interest to anyone.

 

Has anyone experienced Muraudio electrostatic speakers? if so what was your impression of them?

@willieva @kgveteran

I heard the smaller Muraudios at AXPONA 2019. These are the ones that cost roughly $20k then. I thought they were very good. The advantage they offered over most stats is a very wide listening area.

I like the way Sanders speakers sound, but they have an extremely narrow sweet spot . . . the opposite of the Muraudios.

I’ve heard MLs once or twice and to me, they lacked body. It could be that newer ones are better; I don’t know.

I have heard Quads with and without DSP in the system and thought they were flatter sounding with DSP. Otherwise, they are a known quantity and much beloved by many.

For 8 years now, I’ve been using a pair of Janszen Valentina P8 speakers. I had them upgraded from the previous version, and most published reviews are under that model number, zA2.1. I like them for their very smooth frequency response, easy placement, good bass, and of course that electrostatic low distortion. So I definitely recommend you give them a try. They are much smaller than SoundLabs, so they will be easier to place in a small room.

Janszen also makes an active version with nCore amplification, should you wish to simplify your system.

They really are something special.

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