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echo: audio
to: DREW HOHMANN
from: LEWIS COLON
date: 1996-08-04 10:16:00
subject: Audio!

-> wired in parallel, down to an ohm or so.  Now what about electrostatic
-> speakers? It's not unusual too see them running at .67ohms or so.  Now, I
-> don't really know a lot about electrostatics, but can the amplifiers still
-> maintain that precise control over the speakers at that low of a load?
Keep in mind most EStats and Ribbons use an xformer between the amp and the
"device" to present a stable load. It would be tough to run some classic Quad
63's with a tube amp if the above were not true 
I -have- run the original full range Apogee's w/o xformers; the mid ribbon is 
a
reactive less-than 2 ohm load and the tweeter ribbon even less. We were
sucessful, but we were using 3 Krell KSA-200's activly tri-amplified! Not too
mny amps will exercise control in the low impedance range in general though.
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