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06-14-02
Hello, i think you may need a berning zh270, stunning with e ... Thorty40
06-14-02
Ooops! a typo. the parasound hca 3500 is 350wpc. Steakster
06-14-02
Steakster... welcome the the world of 'stats. i will never ... Bart
06-15-02: Audiokinesis
Greetings Steakster -
Congrats on you Final purchase! That's one of the few electrostats I haven't heard.
First of all, the Nakamichi Stasis is prone to going into oscillation and self-destructing when driving electrostats. Nakamichi skimped on the output transistors and didn't use the ones designer Nelson Pass specified.
The thing an electrostatic panel likes is a high voltage amplifier. Don't worry too much about the ultra-low impedance at high frequencies (unless your amp is oscillation-prone like the Nak), as there is very little energy up there. It's the high impedance at the lower end of the panel's range, plus the capacitive load, that gives many amps a severe pain in the output stage.
Nearly all of the speakers I sell are full-range electrostats, and by far the best bang-for-the-buck amp I've found is the InnerSound ESL amplifier (good call, Bart!). If you don't have a local dealer, shoot me an e-mail and I'd be happy to arrange a no-risk in-home audition. By no-risk, I mean if you don't like the amp, you won't even have to pay the return shipping.
Best of luck to you in your search!
Duke
Audiokinesis (Threads | Answers | This Thread)
06-15-02
Arrrgh - sorry for posting again, but i deleted a paragraph ... Audiokinesis
06-15-02
Hi duke: as usual, your response(s) are informative and to ... Travis
06-15-02
I can't speak from personal experience, but some seem to lik ... Unsound
06-15-02
Back about 15 years ago ( wow, was it really that long ago ? ... Sean
06-15-02
The acoustat tnt-200 has been upgraded and is now the hafler ... Elgordo
06-16-02
It's the volts!(watts = amps x volts) look at the power supp ... Angela100
06-16-02
May i join this discussion, since i am a proud owner of mart ... Tekunda
06-16-02
Whoo hooo... prodigy's with wolcott's! that must be one swee ... Angela100
06-16-02
It's really not watts or amps but volts. esls are mostly vol ... Bear
06-17-02
Hahahah... bear, you bring up a very good and interesting po ... Sean
06-17-02
If you are looking for a amp designed for electrostatics the ... Tweety
06-17-02
Tweety speaks the truth! and whoever heard of esl's at eight ... Angela100
06-18-02
Innersound also has a electrostatic amp at 2,000 volt-amps a ... Tweety
06-19-02
The innersound amps are pretty nice for the $$... you might ... Bear
06-19-02
Bear, i have seen impedance charts for acoustat's that show ... Sean
06-20-02
I'm using a innersound esl amp to drive my magnepan 1.6's an ... Bradz
06-20-02
Sean, which acoustat?? all of the acoustats that used the 12 ... Bear
06-20-02
I owned acoustat ivs for many years. anyone interested in el ... Pls1
06-21-02
I'm very happy with my mcintosh ma-6500. it sounds great, ha ... Hififile
06-22-02
Bear, i'll see if i can dig up the info on that specific aco ... Sean
06-22-02
Bear and sean, the paper i referenced on that website shows ... Pls1
06-24-02
Yeah... and i looked around for my original brochure and can ... Bear
01-29-03
Hi, try to find some counterpoint power amps. unfortunately, ... Waldhorn
01-29-03
Bear is right, its current. i'll probably get some flack he ... Asa
01-29-03
Respectfully disagree, but no flack. the innersound seems t ... Travis
01-30-03
Try tube amps. the previous owner of my acoustats commented ... Aroc
01-30-03
I have owned stats for 14 years now, beveridge and martin lo ... Pmwoodward
01-30-03
Travis, they were sent in for review at the time; they were ... Asa
02-27-03
A friend of mine recently was trying to upgrade the amplifie ... Quadophile
02-27-03
Bear - what do you mean regarding the "history" of ... Scotty_910
02-27-03
Hey, asa, you heard what you heard. i've never heard the ne ... Travis
02-27-03
Scotty: i think bear meant that one might want to do some r ... Sean
02-28-03
Van alstine makes the 440hc to drive loads from 1 ohm, it us ... Web4950
03-02-03
I have owned electrostats for around 12 years and found they ... Jsawhitlock
03-07-03
Travis, sorry so long to get back; forgot about this thread ... Asa
03-07-03
From what i've been told, both sound labs & martin logan ( a ... Sean
03-07-03
Sean, i have the martin logan odysseys which replaced the as ... Btstrg
03-08-03
Hmmmm.... thanks for the info btstrg. i'll have to check w ... Sean
03-08-03
You need high current for the reasons audiokinesis so aptly ... Detlof
03-09-03
As i understand, switching amps (such as bel cantos, spectro ... Mscommerce
03-09-03
I don't know about the bel canto's or spectron's but the ps ... Sean
03-12-03
Yesterday i was at the friends place as he invited me to lis ... Quadophile
03-13-03
Btstrg, i spoke with dennis chern of martin logan this after ... Rcrump
03-14-03
To corroborate what bob stated, ml is in fact using the jc-1 ... Sean
08-15-03
By the way, innersound told me that their esl amp is indeed ... Peter_s
08-16-03
That's a new one on me. my two esl amps run very, very hot ... Travis
08-17-03
Well... i think i got it right from innersound... if anyone ... Peter_s
08-17-03
The innersound amp is not a switching amplifier. it is a cl ... Nealhood
08-17-03
The esl amps are actually coda's low-end "continuum&quo ... Rgodin
08-19-03
I own a pair of acoustat selp-powered speakers and i do lov ... Unclejeff
11-17-03
Practically, any high-current power amplifier would be able ... Emil_anghel
12-08-03
Otl's and esl's....a very synergistic arrangement! paull@
04-27-06
For budget planning i have used 2 crown ps 400s bridged putt ... Crawfojb
03-21-07
I have used a pair of classe dr8 in mono with a blue circle ... Lacee
03-22-07
Fwiw, the physics of esls do not help solid state amps out. ... Atmasphere
02-26-09
Very very easy answer to your question steakster a good ampl ... Mracoustat
02-26-09
Whatta ya bet: steakster's found an amp by now? Rodman99999
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