Thanks for your good wishes. The electrostats continue to please me and several customers who have heard them at my home. Finding dealers is a difficult task. Any inquiries will be gladly considered. Given what listeners are spending on electrostats that have serious flaws I would like the word to get out there. I have owned or heard every major effort in ESL technology and I know I've got something quite wonderful. All the objections and shortcomings of currently available ESLs, including the WAF, have been considered and overcome in this design.
The system consists of a pair of mirror imaged line sources, a pair of resistance loaded woofers designed to work with ESLs and an electronic crossover that allows the listener to adjust his bass preference is currently available directly from MR at $7500. When dealers get hold of them the price will be much higher. I would be happy to arrange an in-home trial with a modest restocking charge of 5% should they not please the listener. The speakers could be on loan for a month or more. It would be better for everyone if several interested parties within driving distance organize the audition in a way that several listeners could audition them at a central location and the serious ones work out a plan to audition them in their homes. If several pairs are desired by the group there would be a group discount. You help me, I help you.
Those of you who have followed my life's work in audio (if you don't go to MR website) know that I have been working on the problems involved with electrostats since 1976. I moved across the country to work with Harold Beveridge who I still consider to be the most knowledgable person I have met in the field. His solution was large, expensive, and not reliable due to manufacturing difficulties but for those who can contend with them the sound is marvelous. While I worked with him and for many years after I considered these problems and little by little found solutions to them. When I reached a level of performance that surpassed the old and new QUADS I sold all the QUADS, the Beveridges I had built myself and the acoustats I had modified.
I have lived with my ESLs for several years before offering them for sale as I do with all my designs. For myself and for special order I have added two inputs and a volume control to the crossover thus eliminating the need for a preamp. Makes for a nice bi-amp system with a minimum or cables and boxes. I have bumped the topic to the top of the list for those who might have missed it.
