My second system that I use loads (I am listening to it now while typing bit of McAlmont & Butler) is very different. What it has though is really precise and textured good enough to me. Bass is not ever going to be huge with ESL unles the panel was truly huge. However with the use of DIRAC Live 3.0 I have then hard against the wall on 18 inch stands that also tip them forward (Quad had them on legs pointing towards the ceiling to get first rteflections) and about 6cm from the wall. No box effect thereĮSL are not supposed to be anywhere near a wall as they are true dipoles and so have the same sound going backwards as forwards.
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I think the way around that would be to have some large bass drivers in true infinite baffle mode partnered up with ESL's - the back wave of the bass drivers firing in to an under floor void or adjacent room of at least ten times the driver's VAS. Do they need to be out in to the room or can they work back against the wall ?Īs for boxiness (I made that word up) I know where you are coming from having played briefly with open baffle. I have always been intrigued by ESL's but put off by the reports of lacking bass extension and the size of them.
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So for me right now these are the perfect speaker and I will be leaving things as they are for a number of minths and just listen to and buy music. Added to this i can listen for very extended periods and just want to put something else on not turn the system off. Bass is never going to be Sound System levels but it is in keeping with the whole sound and is textured and detailed. As speakers they image very well but sort of in a wall across the room not streching back. The issue was years of hearing box speakers and not realising that they were adding colourations. I then tested a recording of my wife singing and realised for the first time that the Quads were accurate and sounded exactly as my wifes voice does. At first I thought there was somehting wrong as vocals I thought I knew well sounded different.
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Quad speakers are really different to any box speaker I have heard in paticular for vocals.
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Happily in the last four or five weeks repaired items and patience in set up have rewarded me with the best music i have ever heard in my house to date.
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I then spent a very difficult twelve months were various items (DAC,s, Amps, DSP units) all failed and the system became very dysfuntional. Well after a revealing vist to an enthusiast in Kendal I found that to be rubbish and bought a pair.After spending quite a bit on getting them over hauled by AQuadthing they were finally working. The speakers here are something I spent years not buying because I was told a number things they had issues with and that my room was not big enough.
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Now at this present time the system consists of an Allo Digi + streamer / Theta Data Basic CD Transport feeding a MiniDSP DDRC 22D DSP unit which sends the digitaly revised signal to a Denafrips Pro 8 MK 1 DAC which is then fed via balanced output to an XTZ A100 power amp with the remote on the DDRC 22D acting as volume control in to a pair of Quad ESL57. Well I have two main systems in the house that I listen to the one downstairs is in the second lounge which we call the music room.