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One ESL manufacturer who did something potentially lethal

was Dayton Wright. The massive (a 150 lb. chunk of metal resembling a large power amp) power supply/step up transformer unit had very heavy hardwired output cables to each speaker that made heavy duty automobile jumper cables look a little dainty :-) Those cables were I believe 15 ft. long, transmitting up to 15 kV in the case of the XIM-11 professional model PS/xfmr unit. The much more common XIM-10 consumer model put out a mere 9 kV :-)

Naturally with today's safety regulations such a thing would never fly. But fortunately Mike Wright must have known what he was doing because I never heard of anyone getting fried.

"Ideal" audio product characteristics:
- Esoteric and dangerous (John Iverson, anyone?)
- Expensive
- Unavailable

Well, DWs were available back in the day.
Brian Walsh


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