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In Reply to: RE: Great speakers! posted by Lew on August 18, 2015 at 08:20:26
And I use Stax F83's with Futterman OTL3's. These speakers are incredibly inefficient, but they have a very high impedance in the midrange (160 ohms). Strangely for ELS's, the impedance drops to about 4 ohms at low frequencies as well as high, and the amps struggled with bass. Adding a pair of subwoofers helped enormously, and I now get plenty of dynamics as well as greatness sweetness in midrange and treble.
The speakers are pretty much unavailable now, unfortunately.
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F83s are great! I had F81s and wish I had kept them...so transparent. We drove them best with a big Push/pull EL34 based amp but I can imagine an OTL being just jaw dropping with them.
Have you seen the company in Holland that makes a Electrostatic direct drive amp that will also work with STAX speakers?
http://twinstaticaudio.com/elektronica/twin-otl/
monoblocks with 4600V swing.
Thanks very much. I am indeed very happy with the sound of my OTL-STAX combo.
I have a letter from Harvey Rosenberg himself saying it was an ideal combination; for a while he was thinking of marketing a special amplifier to go with these speakers. I think Roger Modjeski is also offering a direct drive option for this and several other ESL;s. I'm happy as is, however.
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