Blind listening verses Sighted Listening..good read

[E-Stat]

Power doesn't imply voltage only nor did I allude to that.

What you said was that a powerful SS amp would work. Some do, some do not depending upon their ability to drive reactive loads. My thirty years of using electrostatic speakers has found many that do not work well. What is your opinion based upon?

The article you first referred to me had errors in.

Since you were unfamiliar with the concept of reactance, I thought that would be a start for you. I will repeat my suggestion that you do some more research on your own if you really wish to understand the challenge.

Conventional speakers are not mostly resistive.

That depends upon your perspective. Since electrostats are essentially capacitors, they are indeed very different from dynamic drivers which are primarily resistive.

Your smugness, lack of proffesionalism (sic)...

I retired my mod duties. You never answered my question as to how many amplifiers YOU HAVE experimented with on electrostatic speakers. You never answered my question as to how many amplifiers you have designed. College textbook answers frequently differ from the real world as experienced by engineers who actually work in this field.

rw

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What you said was that a powerful SS amp would work. Some do, some do not depending upon their ability to drive reactive loads. My thirty years of using electrostatic speakers has found many that do not work well. What is your opinion based upon?


Since you were unfamiliar with the concept of reactance, I thought that would be a start for you. I will repeat my suggestion that you do some more research on your own if you really wish to understand the challenge.


That depends upon your perspective. Since electrostats are essentially capacitors, they are indeed very different from dynamic drivers which are primarily resistive.


I retired my mod duties. You never answered my question as to how many amplifiers YOU HAVE experimented with on electrostatic speakers. You never answered my question as to how many amplifiers you have designed. College textbook answers frequently differ from the real world as experienced by engineers who actually work in this field.

rw

I have studied reactive components and have used motors in series with circuits to bring the power factor back to a value of 1. Unlike you who have found it emperically, I've studied the effects of reactance and very well versed in the principles of impedance.

Whats your degree in?

[E-Stat]

I have studied reactive components and have used motors in series with circuits to bring the power factor back to a value of 1.

Motors? How do they sound driving electrostats?

Unlike you who have found it emperically (sic), I've studied the effects of reactance and very well versed in the principles of impedance.

Using motors.

Whats your degree in?

IT. Thanks for finally answering my question.

rw

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Motors? How do they sound driving electrostats?


Using motors.


IT. Thanks for finally answering my question.

rw

I'm also in IT and I can't where an IT person would care about impedancee and electrical principles, signal propagation theorey, amplfier design, semiconductor maetrials even come into play when everything is rolled out of a box. I have studied all of that and more so please don't spout your unqualified opinions of impedance on me again. Its wasting my time.

[E-Stat]

I'm also in IT and I can't where an IT person would care about impedancee and electrical principles, signal propagation theorey, amplfier design...

Simple. I'll explain it to you. I have been a music lover for nearly forty years. Since I was first exposed to the coherency and purity of electrostats in 1976, I have owned and enjoyed many of them. Such a relationship has required that I spend time finding amplifiers that work well driving them. Many do not. I'm certainly not talking about *motors*.

so please don't spout your unqualified opinions of impedance on me again. Its wasting my time.

You continue to forget the topic. It's about "reactance". What I "spout" is common knowledge for those who actually work in the audio industry.

rw