2nd hand tatty mk 1 chipboard single wired ES14s
like mine
stuff the ports with old wooly socks & change the tweeter cap with a polypropaline 2.2 uF .
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Cheers, HBS
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Primarily because the ES14 was made by an Epos that went bust. The Epos that now exists is effectively just the name and is owned by Creek, there is very little connection back to the original firm.
The original Epos was the high end mark of Mordaunt-Short which they bought in 1998 and the ES14 were made by the highly rated loudspeaker designer, Robin Marshall who eventually retired.
Also if they were made now, they likely be much more expensive and probably as a result price themselves out of the market and they aren’t exactly pretty with their industrial look.
I only heard them once very briefly about 30 years ago. What do they sound like compared with S8s liar sized two way boxes?Not a bad bit of grave robbery. I had 3 pairs, keeping selling then regretting it. Eventually with a pair of the best single wired jobs with the original glued in bungs, a pair of Quad ELS 57 and a pair of Neat Vito Ultimatum on rotation for about 5 months the Neats stayed. Now if I had the skills to sort the slightly irritating splashy treble of the 14s as mentioned above things may have been different. Most ES14 nutters have gone to Yamaha which I will try when an immaculate pair shows up.
Oh was that AFTER the Epos M12i/M5i? I thought that Epos was a successful company made good products
I wouldn't say 14s have a thump in the bass at all, in fact they can be a bit light but have a very good tuneful bass, tight and agile.
No, all the Epos models that you mention are later designs that have nothing to do with the original company (other than the name). There are only two originals and they are the ES14, and later, the ES11. That’s not to say that later designs are not also good, but they were not designed by Robin Marshall.