This afternoon Arian Jansen was kind enough to host the first of hopefully many local GTGs. We kept this one small to see how it would go, and it went very well. Thanks Arian!
Arian showing his hand-built electrostatic speakers driven directly with OTL tube amps he designed specifically for those panels. No transformers on the output of the amps or the input of electrostats. Amazing! (the speakers and amps, that is).
Rich is here!
Enjoyin' the music are Gary, Art, Arian, Hajime, and Rich.
My best impression of the "Lone Wolf" pose. I'm 6'0" so the speakers have me beat by a few inches. Outside of each the e-stat is a Def Tech bipole tower used to augment the e-stat panel's bass from 220hz on down. Seamless integration and lots of midbass slam.
Heavy listening.
Arian with his amp prototype. A switching PS delivers 7000 volts
to two 572 tubes that drive the electrostatic panels directly.
Gary contemplating a 572 output tube.
The glow of 7000 volts.
Hajime Sato of Eastwindimport.com. Got any cool jazz to share, Hajime? As a matter of fact... Karel Boehlee Trio,
Love Dance. Luscious piano trio jazz sumptuously brought to life by Arian's system. World class music meets world class sound.
Studer A810 playing back Reference Recordings'
Exotic Dances from the Tape Project. Of course Arian built his own tube output and EQ stage for it.
Art takes in
Dance of the Tumblers played back on the Studer. Incredible dynamics!
Arian has something special here. This system delivers the goods as well or better than any other I've heard. Thanks again for having us over.
'Til next month...
Russ
