BIrksworks
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Dear PFM forum,
A friend has offered to sell me his father's old ESL-57s, bought new in the 70's. I have set them up with a CB Nait ii and and Arcam CD player. When they work, they sound heavenly.
The issue is they are sometimes silent or noisy-- so noisy that there is little actual signal. Also, sometimes one is brighter or more bassy than the other. Turning the balance from one speaker to the other reveals these differences some more (assuming that this is not causing a problem itself!).
I got new speaker cables yesterday and they sounded great all afternoon (5-6 hours). Today, they started off noisy and not making a full spectrum sound, but improved a bit. (Yes, I had the power off overnight. Perhaps, I should leave them on all the time and today's problem was that they were cold...)
The friend wants £700 for them. I feel like getting someone in London (Graham's?) to check them out and see if all the bits are working or at least give me an idea what might be involved in servicing them (ie cost). The friend doesn't want them moved from my place. = Dilemma.
If they sounded great all the time, I would go for it. I dont want to end up with large non-functional radiator look-alikes.
Thoughts gratefully received!
- Birksworks
A friend has offered to sell me his father's old ESL-57s, bought new in the 70's. I have set them up with a CB Nait ii and and Arcam CD player. When they work, they sound heavenly.
The issue is they are sometimes silent or noisy-- so noisy that there is little actual signal. Also, sometimes one is brighter or more bassy than the other. Turning the balance from one speaker to the other reveals these differences some more (assuming that this is not causing a problem itself!).
I got new speaker cables yesterday and they sounded great all afternoon (5-6 hours). Today, they started off noisy and not making a full spectrum sound, but improved a bit. (Yes, I had the power off overnight. Perhaps, I should leave them on all the time and today's problem was that they were cold...)
The friend wants £700 for them. I feel like getting someone in London (Graham's?) to check them out and see if all the bits are working or at least give me an idea what might be involved in servicing them (ie cost). The friend doesn't want them moved from my place. = Dilemma.
If they sounded great all the time, I would go for it. I dont want to end up with large non-functional radiator look-alikes.
Thoughts gratefully received!
- Birksworks
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