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In Reply to: Acknowledging Excellence posted by ggraff on September 26, 2001 at 06:39:18:
...and some I've actually owned!Quad ESL (the "57") - lovely midrange, still among my favorites, and longest-running electrostat (1956-1984).
Dalquist DQ-10 - with the right amp, very relaxing - and opened our eyes to what could be done in a multidriver system when the designer paid attention to getting the decay of the notes right.
Maggie Tympani I-D - that Maggie openness on an orchestral scale.
Maggie 1.6 - a modern cult classic, best Maggie for the masses (so far!).
Sound Lab A-1 - first truly full-range electrostat, still in production after 20 years.
IMF SACM's - explored the frequency extremes while remaining musical - incredible combination of dynamics and subtlty.
Klipschorn - still crazy after all these years (and still in production after all these years - since 1948!).
JBL Hartsfield - we've just about come full circle.
Advent Loudspeaker - got so many of us started.
Rogers LS3/5a - showed us what a small, psychoacoustically optimized speaker could do.
Bose 901 - showed us what marketing could do.
Martin Logan CLS (the original amp-eater) - still the most physically beautiful electrostat, and the rest of the line deserves credit for bringing electrostats into the mainstream.
Ohm Walsh F - brilliant design, amazing what that big cone could do.
Snell Type A - superb imaging and articulation for its day, very intelligently designed for wall placment. A hidden gem.
Meridian M2 - introduced me to holographic imaging.
Shahinian Obelisk - forget hi-fi, and just enjoy the music.
Avant Garde Uno/Duo/Trio - made us throw away our preconceptions of what horns sound like.
Siegfried Linkwitz's DIY system, published in Wireless World in the 70's - at least a decade ahead of its day with time delay compensated fourth-order active crossovers.
Joseph D'Appolito's DIY MTM system, published in SpeakerBuilder in the 80's - and suddenly the pro's were playing catch-up with the amateurs!
Original VPMS super towers - first really loud speaker that still sounded really good.
Beveridge speakers - electrostats with incredibly wide sweet spot, fondly remembered by many.
Wilson WATT/Puppy - an overnight classic, still a standard for comparison, the WATT/Puppy introduced us to serious build quality.
Fried Model Q - first small speaker with really nice, tight bass.
Newform Research R-645 - another modern classic, and inspiring many an otherwise hesitant owner to discover the benefits of capicator upgrades and such.
Lowther drivers in their many incarnations - along with SET's turning at least one corner of the audio world upside down.
Hill Plasmatronics - the stories still circulate. Maybe, just maybe, in some batcave-like secret laboratory, the successor is being developed...
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