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In Reply to: Re: Sound/build quality of ESS transtatic I? posted by pappy 1st on February 21, 2007 at 14:21:33:
Interesting. I thought ESS's original direction was to improve upon the Quad ESL-57 sound. Hence one of their first products, the ESS SuperQuad. You can see some pictures and read some information on that model from the link below.- John
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that is what phil coehlo told me. i had brought my bozak symphonies into the soundroom for a comparison with ess products. phil walked in, took a look at them and said 'bozaks'? and then added that when he and his partners started producing loudspeakers they had bozak tone in mind. if my memory is right i believe he even had a pair at one time. never heard any of the transtatics so i have no idea whether they were bozak like or not. i do know the later heil models were totally different. a year later an employee friend of mine bought a pair of ess amt 6's - the big one's with the less bright heil drivers - he replaced the woofers added a better midrange and fooled around with the crossover. they ended up being very bozak like.
"a year later an employee friend of mine bought a pair of ess amt 6's - the big one's with the less bright heil drivers - he replaced the woofers added a better midrange and fooled around with the crossover. they ended up being very bozak like."
New woofers, new midrange, and changed crossover, that would leave only the tweeters and cabinet as the same. Those are far too many changes to draw any conclusions about what the original design was intended to sound like. Bozak like is what your friend changed his ESS to sound like, but isn't indicative that that's what ESS had intended.At any rate, I had a pair of Bozaks (B-302As) and I'd be surprised if the newer ESS models were intended to sound like them.
bozak souind was the inspiration in starting the company according to phil coehlo.and that was way before the heil driver came into existence. clearly the heil era had nothing to do with bozak sound, two different animals entirely. as for the modified sixes the idea was not to sound like the original but to improve upon it. joe's modified 6's were such a vast improvement over the original you would not have wanted to listen to the original again. whatever he did his modified sixes had that bozak midrange. i must add that at that time my symphonies were somewhat modified themselves with a peerless tweeter to bring out a bit more highs. in an a/b test they sounded nearly identical. yeah, we were both shocked. as good as they both were neither of them came close to the transar.
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