Hi T,
at April 20, 1996, You wrote to Drew Hohmann about:
  Re: ?
 DH>> ... Now what about electrostatics?  I seem to remeber
 DH>> someone mentioning owning a pair of electrostatics with a .67ohm
 DH>> load. ... Now would you have the same problems with electrostatics
 DH>> at that load as you would normal cone speakers?
 TO> That's a very good question. It seems to me that the lower mass of
 TO> the electrostatic membrane would be easier to control, as long as it
 TO> wasn't asked to repro a lot of bass, with the larger excursions that
 TO> low end requires.
Well, electroststics can't store the amount of energy a huge cone
speaker is able to - but they have a hell of capacity due to their
function-principle and even worse a big transformer right behind the
input-terminal. Mixing all this up makes no easy load for an amp...
 TO> I think that a lot of the old ES drivers were driven with tube amps,
 TO> and tube amps prefer a tight loading.
... using transformers in the output-stage of the tube-amp and
anotherone within the ES, mostly direct coupled... :-(
 TO> I will have to think about this for a while.
;-)))
 'til nexttime
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