Playing the modular through my home stereo

[Doug Tymofichuk]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:15:55 +0100 (MET) Martin Czech 
<czech at Micronas.Com> wrote:

> 
> :::Electrostatic speakers may come closer, mine are immune 
> to :::DC damage. Square waves sound VERY cool through them.
> 
> According to Pfleiderer electrostatic speakers have phase
> distortion as well, but I have seen no screen shots. Mr. P. 
> says in his books: "well these giant membranes are said to 
> reveil spaciness, make everything larger then life, but 
> have you seen a singer with a 1 m^2 mouth?".
> 
> I think he means that the size of these membranes cause
> localisation problems. 

I have found this problem with other panel speakers, most 
notably Magneplaner speakers (which are NOT electrostatic). 
All of the electrostatic speakers that I have heard (Quad, 
Acoustat, & Martin-Logan) have been extremely precise in 
localisation when set up correctly, IMO, just as precise as 
any "box" type dynamic speaker system, but with more width, 
depth, and height. But with any bipole or dipole speaker, 
placement is CRITICAL, so if one is not familiar with 
setting these up, mileage may vary considerably.
 

> Anyway, his reasoning appplys only to the high fidelity
> reproduction of "natural" recordings, not the kind of E.M.
> I'm inteerested in 80% of the time.
> 
I have found that E.M. sounds much better and more 
realistic on a top notch system, just as "natural" music 
does. And that includes your weird music too, Martin!
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Doug Tymofichuk
dougt at cancerboard.ab.ca