DimitryZ
pfm Member
My statement is well aligned with PW's sentiment.So you haven’t owned either an 05 or 12 model. I actually asked if you had heard them; if you had you would know that the 63 and models up until the 2805 were not perfect (albeit very good indeed) insofar as they have been improved. I doubt that they are perfect now (what speaker is?) and maybe they will be improved, but your statement that the changes are a waste is erm, how can I put this politely, curious!
BTW I did consider the Eminent speaker but at the time they were represented in the UK by one person and getting a dem at home involved a fee although this would have been taken off the price if I had bought a pair. They did look promising but impossible to judge them without a decent listen.
Why would he not come up with ESL-73 or ESL-83?
If you study the circuit, there is nothing else that can be added or changed within the confines of the design space. Except, perhaps better capacitor here or there. It is, for all intents and purposes, perfect. It remains the one and only speaker that utilizes technology of phased array radars in the audio realm to generate a spherical waveform - a holy grail of audio reproduction.
And, regardless, Quad has long lost the corporate knowledge anyway, so all they can do is double up on bass panels and add sticks. Do they bypass the electrolytic input cap in those newer models or not? That is the first thing one would do...
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