A nice new alloy tweeter plate with a sweet isoplanar tweeter would be interesting.
....and Audiosmile now has a nice new CNC machine
Now there's a thought
. Back in the day, for that sort of price I'd always have chosen a pair of Snell J/II's.
Do you need a test site?
The little ES11 is also very capable and great for those who can't get the ES14 bass to work in their room.
There is no manufacturing relationship between the ES14 and the Celestion SL6, nor is there any real design similarity. Do you really believe that they sound similar? Id be surprised if you did. I would say that it would be hard to find two speakers more sonically different than these.
Info and Snell/Celestion/Epos review here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ali.makinen/EposES14ArtikkeleitaKuvina#
Chris Frankland Forgive me for not taking that too seriously!
I had a pair of early single-wire ES14s for about 10 years. ....... Still regret selling the ES14s but I'm not going back... maybe my memory is rose tinted because the 2 or 3 pairs I've heard in the last 3 years sounded OK but a bit "80s".
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Synthesised?
I always thought the bass (with foam bungs) was rather good and that the treble was the weakness of the design.
I found it hard to escape the gravitational pull of both the 14 and 11, having sold and re-bought them both. However it was the treble that always drove me away in the end. Ended up with Neat Vito Ultimatum SE which were much more expensive. Any 14 owners heard the Neat MFS Ultimatum?
but apart from the bass and the treble they are fantastic!
I wonder when the outsourcing started......? G
I believe that shite was the descriptive term usually applied to the ES14 by the Linn crowd of the period. Whether this applied to the bass or to the treble, Im not certain.but apart from the bass and the treble they are fantastic!
but apart from the bass and the treble they are fantastic!