Quote Originally Posted by skeptic
If your electrostatic speaker has a high end that rolls off, why not try a professional equalizer to boost it back up. It's the same kind the recording engineers who made 98 percent of the recordings you listen to used when they made them and you will get exactly what you need, not a drop more or a drop less.
In your sweeping historical saga, you completely missed the point. I guess it is my fault that I thought you understood what I meant when I talked of an HF rolloff when using attenuators directly to amplifiers in lieu of a preamp. Lemme help you out here.

When you have a source like a CDP driving a power amp directly through a relatively high impedance attenuator (eliminating the superfluous line stage, i.e. unnecessary, not needed, redundant, not required, non-essential), then capacitance comes into play as a possible source of high frequency rolloff. The way to PREVENT any roll off is to minimize the capacitance through the use of short and unfortunately, more expensive cables. As opposed to introducing an otherwise unnecessary tone control stage to counter the effect after the fact. My speakers have nothing to do with this phenomena. They measure +/- 2 db from 28-20khz. The result is greater resolution and improved soundstaging.

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