Realistic Electrostat 2A's

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Finally got around to hooking up my dubious "steal" from the thrift store, those weird Radio Shack ELS's (maybe). When I went to connect the speaker wires on them, there were 3, count 'em, 3, uh, screws (on the back of each speaker), arranged vertically in a straight line, with the top marked " Realistic Electrostat 2A Low Efficiency Full Range", the next one down marked "R.E.2A High Eff.Full Range" and the last marked "8 ohm common". There was also a "High Freq." knob for increasing, duh, the high freq., I suppose.
Has anyone else ever seen connections like I've described, before? And pardon my considerable ignorance on what to do, but all my previous speakers were idiot proof, with just a "-" and a "+", so even I had no problems.
Any advice?
McDave

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Topic - Realistic Electrostat 2A's - McDave 20:08:41 11/24/01 (7)

Re: Realistic Electrostat 2A's - aval 20:01:14 11/26/01 (0)

Re: Realistic Electrostat 2A's - Dman 21:50:44 11/25/01 (0)

Re: Realistic Electrostat 2A's - Brian Levy 18:08:41 11/25/01 (3)

Re: Realistic Electrostat 2A's - Ross 10:11:59 11/26/01 (2)

Nope - first comment was correct. - Brian Levy 18:04:15 11/27/01 (0)

Whoops - I was thinking of the full range hybrid speaker not the JansZen ripoff (nt) - Brian Levy 11:16:39 11/26/01 (0)

- - -In Electrical Terms,"Common" Is The 'Ground' or (-) Connection- - - - john c. 12:55:08 11/25/01 (0)

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