Final-Audio New Series electrostatics

Holy Fooock ! You Guys like going deep into the Rabbit Hole !

Anyways I’ve talked to and met @pinwa at T.H.E. Show in Costa Mesa where he heard the M35’s but not my setup with the M7 passive Hybrid’s. Very nice Guy and we have a mutual friend Krazy Kalina (another one of the "good ones").

I’ll cut to the Shxxt here. I own the M12+’s with 4 SVS SB2000 Sealed Subs in a swarm setup. The burn in period in pure BS to my ears ! But then I don’t believe in burn of any kind. The 12+’s sound as good today as they did over a month ago. 

I push the Foock out them sometimes to the point that I keep a stash of fast blow 1A fuses neaby. Not a fault of the Speakers. I just do stupid Shxxt to them sometimes. Even blew open the Plasma Fuse inside the Transformer Box ! Again, not a fault of the Speakers. "It’s just me" 

I run ArgentPur Monoblocks with Orchard Audio Ultra Modules and solid silver wire throughout. My entire rig is wired by ArgentPur Solid Silver Wires EVERYWHERE. Got ’em up my Arse too !

Anyway. Working with Ravi on the purchase (as Clandestine as it is) - get the Website up and running Brah ! Martin also has been great regarding technical support on the Tranformer box design. I’m learning my way through from input to ouput.

They are great Foocking Speakers !!!

Back into the the Rabbit Hole Boyz !!!

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I am late to this thread, but I found it very interesting. I am the third owner of my Acoustat 1+1 speakers. I purchased them from for only $350 from a friend that was very disappointed with the bass. I thought the sound was terrific and  purchased them on the spot. Then I added a Vandersteen sub and invited him over. He was blown away by how they sounded.

Today, I run them with an active SPL crossover limiting the signal to the 1+1’s above 70 Hz with a steep -24 dB slope. The signal to the dual Rythmik F12SE subs is limited to below 70 Hz with the same -24dB slope. I keep wanting to get new speakers but have not found any that I prefer to this set up. I listened to the M35’s in Costa Mesa last summer and liked them, but felt they were lacking just a bit in bass oomph. I would personally add a pair of subs to them and have the crossover at around 50 Hz. But at $21k for the pair I won’t be making that test. Half that price, and I might be tempted. My speakers are around 35 years old.

Electrostatic speakers just have a presence that other speakers are missing. It is kind of like how some people love horn driven speakers (I don’t, but I appreciate them). They just sound different. Electrostatic speakers, in my space, makes me believe that I am in a mid sized live acoustic concert venue. It also helps that all my equipment was selected over the years to complement the 1+1’s.

@thriftyaudio A Great Story and in ways one that reflects on my own experiences.

Your Speakers at over 35 Years moved on from their Release as a Design and possibly their Production Era, still being able to impress as per the description given, is no different to my own.

My own Speakers up to 70 Years moved on from their Release and Design and a lengthy Production Era are able to create Jaw on Floor musical experiences of End Sound Produced.

At a Publicly  Attended Audio Event where I exhibited, In the room I was exhibiting in, I was to cover over and conceal a Stand that was within the Room.

Visitors to the Room who were quite familiar with my Speakers were quite vocal about how impressive they were, and how they were performing much better than how they recollected from their own periods of ownership.

Some Visitors were adamant I was using Bass Augmentation and were finding it difficult to comprehend and not believing me. One visitor, who was so cock sure Bass support was in use, I sent them to the Covered Table to see the Bass Unit in use under the cover. Call me a supplier of falsehood and you'll get my version of a falsehood . They were scratching their head when they were appraising the Speakers qualities.

The same Speakers, or more accurately described, is repurposed parts belonging to that design of ESL Speaker, are to be found in $100K+ Speakers supplied to the market currently by Emia. 

A prudent market search should get speakers of this type to be used as donor models only for near a $1K - $1.5K.

A very good condition working pair would also if searched out prudently, be found for similar monies or less than the above price guide.    

Having owned Acoustat 2+2s and having heard multiple pairs of Quad ESL-57s if you think either of those speakers are competitive with today's best panel speakers (electrostatic, magneplanar, or ribbon) I would suggest you are either delusional or listen to an extremely limited range of music.  They have their strengths, and the 57s in particular have a great midrange and spooky holographic soundstage, but they simply don't sound very good with quite a lot of music.  But hey, whatever rocks your boat and your budget.  Just stop claiming the technology hasn't improved over the last 40-50 years without having actually listened to other speakers.